2-Aminothiazole → Diethyl {[(1,3-thiazol-2-yl)amino]methylidene}propanedioate

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2-Aminothiazole (10.0 g., 0.10 mole) and diethyl ethoxymethylenemalonate (23.8 g., 0.11 mole) were combined and heated on a steam bath for 1.25 hours. The reaction mixture was cooled and the resulting semisolid recrystallized from hexane to yield purified 2-(2,2-dicarbethoxyethenyl)thiazole (17.2 g. in two crops, Rf 0.6 on silica gel thin layer chromatography with chloroform/1% ethanol as eluant).

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