Acetic Acid → N-(N-formyl-N-methyl-aminomethyl)-3,4-dichloroisothiazole-5-carboxamide

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At room temperature, 15 g (0.164 mol) of N-formyl-N-hydroxymethyl-methylamine are added with stirring to a mixture of 32.3 g (0.164 mol) of 3,4-dichloro-isothiazole-5-carboxamide and 245 ml of glacial acetic acid. At room temperature, 37 g (0.362 mol) of concentrated sulphuric acid are then added dropwise with stirring, the reaction mixture being cooled with ice. The reaction mixture is subsequently stirred at room temperature for 29 hours and then, with ice-cooling, admixed with 400 ml of water. The resulting mixture is extracted four times with 200 ml of methylene chloride and the combined organic phases are dried over sodium sulphate and then concentrated under reduced pressure. The oily residue that remains is chromatographed over silica gel using ethyl acetate. Concentration of the eluate gives 20.7 g (42.6% of theory) of N—(N-formyl-N-methyl-aminomethyl)-3,4-dichloro-isothiazole-5-carboxamide in the form of a crystalline solid of melting point 87 to 88° C.

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