Formamide → Ethyl 6,7-dihydrothiazolo[5,4-c]pyridine-5(4h)-carboxylate

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Diphosphorus pentasulfide (500 g) was suspended in formamide (3,000 ml) with ice cooling, and the suspension was stirred overnight. Water and diethyl ether were added to the reaction mixture, and an organic layer was separated and dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate, and the solvent was distilled off to obtain an oil. After the oil was dissolved in n-butanol (350 ml), and ethyl 3-chloro-4-oxo-1-piperidinecarboxylate (150 g) synthesized according to the process described in literature (Tetrahedron, 1983, Vol. 39, p. 3767) was added to the solution, the resultant mixture was stirred at 100° C. for 2.5 hours. The reaction mixture was filtered through Celite. The filtrate was washed with a saturated aqueous solution of sodium hydrogencarbonate and saturated aqueous solution of sodium chloride, and then dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate. The solvent was distilled off under reduced pressure, and the residue was purified by column chromatography on silica gel (methylene chloride→ethyl acetate:hexane=1:2) to obtain ethyl 6,7-dihydrothiazolo[5,4-c]pyridine-5(4H)-carboxylate (79.0 g).

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