Bs. Jursic et Z. Zdravkovski, PREPARATION OF 5-SUBSTITUTED 2-METHYL-1,3,4-OXADIAZOLES FROM 5-SUBSTITUTED TETRAZOLES AND ACETIC-ANHYDRIDE, Synthetic communications, 24(11), 1994, pp. 1575-1582
Readily available tetrazoles can be transformed into the corresponding
2-methyl-1,3,4-oxazodiazoles by heating their acetic anhydride soluti
on. The procedure is simple, short, gives high yields, and is applicab
le to large scale syntheses.