2-Hydroxy-1-naphthaldehyde → 2-Cyano-3-(2-hydroxynaphth-1-yl) thioacrylamide

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A mixture of 2-hydroxy-1-naphthaldehyde (172 mg, 1 mmol), 2-cyanothioacetamide (110 mg, 1.1 mmol), N,N-diethylaminoethanol (23 mg, 0.2 mmol) and 15 ml ethanol is stirred for 30 min at reflux under nitrogen. Then the mixture is chilled, the precipitate filtered, washed with ice-cooled ethanol and dried in a vacuum-oven. Thus an almost pure title compound is obtained in 85% yield (1080 mg). Recrystallization from ethanol furnishes very pure samples.

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