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The last step does not need sodium metal but only sodium hydroxide. The thiol is acidic enough to form a salt with NaOH. Further, metallic sodium would cleave the thio ether, I guess. --FK1954 (talk) 13:01, 4 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]