Fine Organics Limited

E.i. Dupont De Nemours and Company

Glaxo Group Limited

Laporte Industries Limited

Agro-kanesho Co., Ltd.

Graham Heyes

Arthur Jackson

James Ian Grayson

Paul E Rowney

Martin Harris

David Holmes

John Hollowood

Craig Morgan

Brian John Somerville

Russell Clarke

James Orrock Macgregor

A process for preparing a vinyl isothiocyanate comprises contacting a halogen-substituted allyl thiocyanate, in solution and at an elevated temperature, with an acidic material which is either an acid or a halide or oxyhalide of an inorganic acid. The halogen-substituted allyl thiocyanate may be prepared from a dihalogenated alkene. The vinyl isothiocyanate may subsequently be converted to a thiazole.

Preparation of vinyl isothiocyanates

A process for preparing an aliphatic thioamide entails reacting a nitrile compound of the general formula

Preparation of thioamides

A process for the preparation of a substituted thiazole comprises reacting an isothiocyanate compound of the general formula

Preparation of substituted thiazoles

Preparation of substituted ethenes

According to the invention, there is provided a process for the preparation of an aminoalkyl p-hydroxyphenyl ketone comprising reacting phenol with a nitrile, in the presence of a Lewis acid catalyst, to cause condensation thereof, the process being characterised in that the reaction is carried out in a medium comprising a nitroalkane solvent for the reactants.

Process for the preparation of ketones

A potassium salt useful in the production of N-substituted-1-alkylthio-2-nitroethenamines is produced by the reaction of the dipotassium salt of nitrodithioacetic acid with certain straight chain alkylamines, thereby converting only one of the KS-groups to an alkylamine group. The resulting monopotassium salt may be alkylated to produce the required N-substituted-1-alkylthio compound which may be reacted with a suitable amine to produce the histamine H.sub.2 -antagonist ranitidine.

The invention provides a process for the preparation of nitromethylene heterocyclic compounds of general formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a formyl or acetyl group, each moiety R.sup.2 is independently selected from hydrogen atoms and C.sub.1-4 alkyl and benzyl groups, and n is 2 or 3, which process comprises reacting an alkali metal methylnitrodithioacetate with a compound of formula

Process for the preparation of nitromethylene heterocyclic compounds

A method for the preparation of a thiazine derivative, having insecticidal properties, of the formula ##STR1## where each R is hydrogen or an appropriate aromatic or aliphatic substituent and X is hydrogen, halogen or lower alkyl, the method comprising reacting together a sulphur donor, a compound of the formula Y.sub.2 C.dbd.CXNO.sub.2 where Y is halogen (preferably chlorine) or another appropriate leaving group and a compound of the formula

Preparation of thiazine derivatives

A method for the preparation of a thiazine derivative of the formula ##STR1## where each R is independently selected from hydrogen or a lower alkyl having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, the method comprising reacting together a sulphur donor which is selected from sulfur, ammonium or alkali metal sulfides, ammonium or alkali metal hydrosulfides, or hydrogen sulfide, 1,1-bis(methylthio)-2-nitroethene and a compound of the formula

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Graham Heyes