Method of preparing uracil

US4558126A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Dynamit Nobel GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Hermann Peeters · Siegburg, DE
• Wilhelm Vogt · Lichtenau, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 16, 1984
• Grant date: Dec 10, 1985
• Expiry date: Nov 16, 2004

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07D239/56
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A method is disclosed whereby uracil is obtained from alkali formyl acetic acid alkyl esters by reacting such esters with thiourea and then with hydrogen peroxide without isolating the intermediates, and then separating the uracil by precipitation with acids.