Sodium Cyanide → (2-tert-Butyl-5-methyl-oxazol-4-yl)-acetonitrile

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Reaction Steps

To 5.72 g of NaCN (116.8 mmol), dissolved in 77 ml of DMSO, was slowly added via dropping funnel 14.14 g of the above prepared 2-tert-butyl-4-chloromethyl-5-methyl-oxazole (75.3 mmol) at such a rate that the internal temperature stayed at 25–30°. Stirring was continued for an additional 1.5 h at 35°. The reaction mixture was then poured onto crashed ice/AcOEt, the organic layer washed with water, dried over sodium sulfate, and evaporated to dryness. Thereby, 13.19 g of the title product was obtained, which was used without further purification for the next step.

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