Water → N-(4-chloro-2-(pyridin-3-yl)thiazol-5-yl)-N,2-dimethyl-3-(methylthio)propanamide

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To a dry 50 ml round bottom flask equipped with magnetic stirrer, addition funnel, and nitrogen inlet was charged 1.0 g (3.05 mmoles) of N-(4-chloro-2-(pyridin-3-yl)-1,3-thiazol-5-yl)-2-methyl-3-(methylthio)propanamide and 10 mLs of anhydrous N,N-dimethyl formamide. To the resulting solution was then added 1.1 g (3.36 mmoles) of cesium carbonate powder in one portion, followed by the dropwise addition of 0.476 g (3.36 mmoles) of iodomethane in 5 mLs of anhydrous N,N-dimethylformamide. The heterogeneous mixture was stirred at ambient temperature for 12 hours, and then poured into 200 mLs of water and extracted with methylene chloride (3×100 mLs). The combined organic extracts were washed with water (100 mLs), saturated aqueous sodium chloride solution (100 mLs) dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate, filtered, and concentrated under vacuum on a rotary evaporator. The crude product was purified by silica gel flash chromatography, eluting with a gradient of 100% hexane to 100% ethyl acetate over 20 minutes to yield a yellow oil (0.93 g, 89%): 1H NMR (400 MHz, CDCl3) δ 9.12 (d, J=1.4 Hz, 1H), 8.73 (d, J=3.8 Hz, 1H), 8.34-8.09 (m, 1H), 7.43 (dd, J=7.9, 4.9 Hz, 1H), 3.30 (s, 3H), 3.06-2.70 (m, 2H), 2.49 (d, J=7.4 Hz, 1H), 2.04 (s, 3H), 1.21 (d, J=6.4 Hz, 3H); 13C NMR (101 MHz, DMSO-d6) δ 175.22, 162.37, 151.91, 146.53, 136.46, 134.64, 133.35, 127.98, 124.27, 37.47, 36.71, 36.47, 17.56, 15.44.

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