Triethylamine → 3-[4-Methyl-5-(2-trifluoromethyl-benzoyl)-thiazol-2-ylamino]-benzonitrile

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To a mixture of 801 mg (5 mmol) 3-cyanophenylthioisocyanate in 5 ml 1N NaOH at 0° C. was added 473 mg acetamidine hydrochloride in 10 ml THF and allowed to stir at 0° C. for 16 h. The mixture was extracted with ethylacetate and the combined organic layers were dried with MgSO4 and evaporated to dryness. The residue was purified by flash column chromatography on silica eluting with ethylacetate/cyclohexane 1:2 to yield 510 mg (47%) of 1-(1-Amino-ethylidene)-3-(3-cyano-phenyl)-thiourea. (MS (m/e): 219.2 (M+H, 100%). A mixture of 50 mg (0.23 mmol) 1-(1-Amino-ethylidene)-3-(3-cyano-phenyl)-thiourea, 92 mg (0.345 mmol) 2-Bromo-1-(2-trifluoromethyl-phenyl)-ethanone and 48 ul triethylamine in 1 ml ethanol was stirred for 16 h at room temperature. The mixtures were diluted with methanol and directly subjected to preparative HPLC separation on reversed phase eluting with an acetonitrile/water gradient. Evaporation of the product fractions yielded 10.4 mg (12%) of the title compound. (MS (m/e): 386.2 (M−H, 100%)

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