Azlactone of a-acetylaminocinnamic

Azlactone of a-acetylaminocinnamic acid. Warm a mixture of 29 g. of acetylglycine, 39-5 g. (37 -5 ml.) of redistilled benzaldehyde (Section IV,115), 15 g. of anhydrous sodium acetate and 67 g. (62 ml.) of acetic anhydride (95 per cent.) in a 500 ml. conical flask (equipped with a reflux condenser) on a water bath with occasional stirring until solution is complete (10-20 minutes). Boil the resulting solution for 1 hour, cool and leave in a refrigerator overnight. Stir the sohd mass of yellow crystals with 60 ml. of cold water, transfer to a Buchner funnel and wash well with cold water. (If the odour of benzaldehyde is stih apparent, wash with a little ether.) Recrystallise from carbon tetrachloride or from ethyl acetate-hght petroleum. The yield of azlactone, m.p. 150°, is 35 g. 

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