(S)-tert-butyl 1-(methoxy(methyl)amino)-1-oxopropan-2-ylcarbamate (2.5 g, 10.76 mmol) was suspended in THF (5 mL) and stirred at −10° C., isopropylmagnesium chloride 2.0M solution in THF (5.4 ml, 10.80 mmol) was added and a solution was formed. To this solution was added a solution of Lithium tri(3-quinolinyl)magnesiate in THF/Hexane, prepared from 3-bromoquinoline (1.471 ml, 10.81 mmol) according to the procedure described by Sylvain Dumouchel et-al. in Tetrahedron 59 (2003) 8629-8640. The mixture was stirred at −10° C. for 30 min and was the allowed to reach r.t. and stirred over night, 15 h. The reaction mixture, a clear red solution, was slowly poured into ice-cooled 1M HCl (aq) (100 mL). EtOAc (150 mL) was added and the mixture was stirred for a few min, the water phase was extracted once with EtOAc, the combined EtOAc solutions was further washed with saturated NaHCO3 (aq) and brine. The crude material was purified by flash-chromatography on silica using a gradient of 0% to 40% EtOAc in Heptane. The obtained material was the further purified by HPLC to afford the subtitle compound as a yellow sticky oil. Yield 1.6 g (49%)
