Conclusions
3-Acetamido-4-acetylmercapto-2-butanone is formed when cysteine, cystine or serine is reacted with Ac2O and either pyridine or γ-picoline in the presence of thioacetic acid.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 7, pp. 1660–1661, July, 1977.