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I11a I Maximum, m p (log e) erlenmeyer flask (oil bath) for 1 hr at 170". During this heating the product was slowly precipitated as a tan crystalline solid. The reaction mixture which was almost completely solid was cooled and then treated with boiling ethyl acetate. Filtration gave 2.5 g (50%) of pure benzo[c]quinolizinium chloride IIIa (X = Cl), mp 247-249'.Recrystallization from 95% ethanolethyl acetate produced no change in melting point. Evaporation of the ethyl acetate filtrate gave trans-2'-chloro-2-stilbazole (Ia) which recrystallized from ligroin (bp 60-90') to yield 2.0 g When the purified cis isomer IIa (X = C1) was cyclized by heating at 170" for 1 hr, a 557' yield of the quinolizinium salt IIIa (X = Cl), based on cis isomer initially used, was obtained.
Method B. Benzo[cjquinolizinium Perchlorate (IIIa, X =The attack of cyanide ion on primary and secondary aminoethyl thiosulfates yields 2-amino-A*-thiazolines. 2-Aminoethyl 2-aminoethanethiolsulfonate and 2-aminoethyl 2-aminoethanethiolsulfinate on treatment with cyanide also yield 2-amino-A2-thiazoline (I). The mass spectra of I, three isomeric methyl-2-amino-A~-thiazolines, 2-imino-3-amidinothiazolidine, and 2-amino-5,6-dihydro-4H-lJ3-thiazine, made from thiosulfates by the above method, as well as 2-methylamino-A2-thiazoline and 2-amino-A2-selenazoline, have been analyzed and found to support the assigned structures. A previously undescribed variation of the McLafferty rearrangement is reported.