Carbon disulfide with 2-aminothiazole

N-(2-thiazolyl)dithiocarbamates are prepared by the action of carbon disulfide on 2-aminothiazoles (see Section III.3.C and Ref. 505). When refluxed with secondary amines these heterocyclic dithiocarbamates yield l,T-dialkyl-3-(2-thiazoIyI)thioureas (261) (491). 

This type of synthesis, which was investigated by Cook and Heilbron (323) and Takahashi (393, 394) between 1947 and 1953, gives 5-aminothiazoles variously substituted in the 2-position by reacting an aminonitrile with salts and esters of dithioacids, carbon disulfide, carbon oxysulfide, and isothiocyanates under exceptionally mild conditions. 

Carbon disulfide readily reacts with a-aminonitriles giving 2-mercapto-5-aminothiazoles (213), (271, 293) which can be converted to 5-aminothiazoles unsubstituted in the 2-position (Scheme 110 and Table II-34a). If this reaction is carried out in the presence of benzyl chloride in phosphorus tribromide, a 2-S-substituted thiazole derivative (214) is obtained in quantitative yield (Scheme 111), with R = hydrogen or phenyl (68, 304). 

The Cook-Heilbron synthesis yields 5-amonothiazoles with various substituents on the 2-position of the thiazole. Such a construction is brought about under mild conditions by reacting a-amino nitrile with salts and esters of dithioacids, carbon disulfide, carbon oxysulfide, isothiocyanates, etc. It was discovered by Cook and Heilbron in 1947 prior to which 5-aminothiazoles were less known. 

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