“…The reaction was first performed with rhodanine and benzaldehyde or acetaldehyde, using sulfuric acid as the condensing agent (462), and the isolation of a product was believed to support an open-chain formula for rhodanine, HSCH2COSCN. Later, sodium hydroxide in ethanolic solution (683), sodium ethoxide in ethanolic solution (666), anhydrous sodium acetate in acetic acid (36,345), anhydrous sodium acetate, acetic anhydride, and acetic acid (386), ammonia and ammonium chloride in ethanolic solution (11,96,268), ammonium hydroxide in ethanolic solution (143), diethanolamine (332), and piperidine (490,571) were used as condensing agents. Sometimes the reaction proceeds eo rapidly that the refluxing solution without an additional condensing agent is sufficient (37,486).…”