Sodium Hydroxide → HCID 131711955, compound

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A reaction mixture was prepared containing 1.8 g. of dl-5-acetamido-1,3-di(carbomethoxy)-4,5,6,7-tetrahydro-2H-benzo[c]pyrrole, 80 ml. of THF and 20 ml. of 2 N aqueous sodium hydroxide. The reaction mixture was heated to refluxing temperature under a nitrogen atmosphere for about 3 hours after which time it was cooled and the volatile constituents evaporated therefrom in vacuo. The residue was dissolved in 25 ml. of water and the aqueous solution made acidic by the addition of 1 N aqueous hydrochloric acid. The diacid, dl-5-acetamido-1,3-dicarboxy-4,5,6,7-tetrahydro-2H-benzo[c]pyrrole, formed in the above hydrolysis being insoluble in the acidic layer precipitated and was collected by filtration. Recrystallization from a benzene-methanol solvent mixture yielded crystalline diacid melting at 233°-235° C. with decomposition.

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