Hydrazine → 4-Hydrazinyl-2-(methylthio)pyrimidine

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In a 250 mL round bottom flask, 4-chloro-2-methylsulfanyl-pyrimidine (5 g, 31.1 mmol), hydrazine (4.5 g, 140 mmol) and potassium carbonate (6.45 g, 46.7 mmol) were combined with ethanol (50 mL). The mixture was refluxed for 3 hrs and filtered. The filtered solid was rinsed with ethanol (30 mL). The combined ethanol solution was evaporated to give a crude oily mixture which was purified by ISCO flash column chromatography (30% to 100% ethyl acetate in hexanes) to give N-(2-methylsulfanyl-pyrimidin-4-yl)-hydrazine as a white solid (2.8 g, 57.6% yield).

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