Ethyl (chloroformyl)acetate → Ethyl thiazole-5-carboxylate

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Reaction Steps

To a round bottom flask was added 250 mL of dry acetone, 7.5 g (0.123 mol) of thioformamide, and 18.54 g (0.123 mol) of ethyl 2-chloro-2-formylacetate. The reaction was heated at reflux for 2 hours. The solvent was removed in vacuo, and the residue was purified by chromatography (SiO2, 6 cm o.d. column, 100% CHCl3, Rf =0.25) to provide 11.6 g (60%) of the desired compound as a light yellow oil.

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