Ethanethiol → HCID 11819569, compound

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Reaction Steps

Under ice cooling, 4.6 ml of ethyl mercaptan was added to 62 ml of 1N-NaOH aqueous solution followed by stirring for 30 minutes. Furthermore, 10.1 ml of tert-butyl bromoacetate was gradually added to the mixture under ice cooling and the resulting mixture was reacted at room temperature for 3 hours. After completion of the reaction, the reaction mixture was extracted 4 times with ethyl acetate and the extract was washed with saturated sodium chloride aqueous solution. After the ethyl acetate layer was dried over magnesium sulfate, ethyl acetate was distilled off to give 12.0 g of crude tert-butyl (ethylthio)acetate.

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