Acetic Acid → Tert-butyl 4-(2-(((trans)-2-phenylcyclopropyl)amino)ethyl)piperidine-1-carboxylate

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A mixture of [trans-2-phenylcyclopropyl]amine (668 mg, 5.02 mmol), 1,1-dimethylethyl 4-(2-oxoethyl)-1-piperidinecarboxylate (1.04 g, 4.58 mmol) and AcOH (1 μL, 0.017 mmol) in chloroform (5 mL) was stirred at room temperature for 18 hours. Sodium triacetoxyborohydride (1.03 g, 4.86 mmol) was added and stirring continued for 18 hours. Upon completion, saturated NaHCO3 was added to the reaction mixture and the mixture was extracted with THF—CHCl3 (2×50 mL). The organics were combined, dried over Na2SO4 and concentrated. The residue was adsorbed onto silica and purified via column chromatography on the ISCO Companion (gradient 0-100% 80:20:2 [CHCl3/MeOH/NH4OH]/CHCl3; 12 g column) to yield the desired product. This product was further purified via reverse phase column chromatography on Gilson ((C18 column: 0.1% Formic acid H2O/CH3CN, 95-5%) affording the title compound (222 mg, 13% yield) as a yellow oil: LC-MS (ES) m/z=345 (M+H)+.

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