Benzyl Alcohol → Benzyl tetrahydro-2H-pyran-4-carboxylate

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A mixture of tetrahydropyran-4-yl-carboxylic acid (910 mg, 6.99 mmol) and SOCl2 (5.0 mL) was stirred for 1 h at 60° C. and concentrated in vacuo. To the residue were added benzyl alcohol (1.52 g, 14.1 mmol) and tetrahydrofuran (5.0 mL) at ambient temperature. The resulting mixture was stirred for 13 h at ambient temperature and concentrated in vacuo. The residue was purified by preparative thin layer chromatography (silica gel, eluting with hexane/ethyl acetate (2:1)) to give 1.08 g (70%) of the title compound as a pale yellow oil.

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