Sodium Formate → Benzyl 2-(4-formylphenyl)pyrrolidine-1-carboxylate

To a 50 mL round-bottomed flask were placed Pd (PPh3)2Cl2 (70 mg, 0.1 mmol), and sodium formate (510 mg, 7.5 mmol) and purged with carbon monoxide. DMF (7 mL) and benzyl 2-(4-bromophenyl)pyrrolidine-1-carboxylate (1.8 g, 5 mmol) were added via syringes. The mixture was vigorously stirred at 100° C. under carbon monoxide atmosphere for 8 hrs. Then the reaction mixture was cooled to room temperature and partitioned between ether (100 mL) and water (15 mL). The organic phase was washed with water (3×15 mL), dried over Na2SO4, and concentrated in vacuo. The residue was purified by column chromatography (silica gel, EtOAc:hexane=1:10) to give the title compound (0.31 g, yield 20%) as a colorless oil. LC-MS (ESI) m/z: 309 (M+1)+; 1H-NMR (400 MHz, DMSO-d6) δ (ppm): 1.73-1.88 (m, 3H), 2.31-2.41 (m, 1H), 3.57-3.67 (m, 2H), 4.84-5.06 (m, 3H), 6.84-6.86 (m, 1H), 7.12-7.34 (m, 4H), 7.41-7.43 (d, J=8.0 Hz, 2H), 7.85-7.87 (d, J=8.0 Hz, 2H), 9.98-9.99 (d, J=6.0 Hz, 1H).

1. customTo a 50 mL round-bottomed flask were placed
2. temperatureThen the reaction mixture was cooled to room temperature
3. custompartitioned between ether (100 mL) and water (15 mL)
4. washThe organic phase was washed with water (3×15 mL)
5. dry with materialdried over Na2SO4
6. concentrationconcentrated in vacuo
7. customThe residue was purified by column chromatography (silica gel, EtOAc:hexane=1:10)

ORD record

ord-8e4c75b4b9a44f21974d4115bec9ee6d

Source dataset

uspto-grants-2011_09

DOI

10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1

Patent number

US08012976B2