L. Brandsma et al., AMBIDENT ISOTHIOCYANATOMETHANIDE ANION FOR REGIOSELECTIVE SYNTHESIS OF THIAZOLES, Russian chemical bulletin, 47(3), 1998, pp. 523-524
Under the action of methyl isothiocyanate, the ambident isothiocyanato
methanide anion, which was generated by deprotonation of methyl isothi
ocyanate with lithium diisopropylamide, was readily and selectively tr
ansformed to 5-methylaminothiazole-2-thiolate.