Water → Tert-butyl 2-(cyclobutylamino)acetate

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Cyclobutylamine (370 mg) was added to an ice-cold suspension of tert-butyl bromoacetate (1.0 g) and potassium carbonate (700 mg) in acetonitrile (20 mL), and the mixture was stirred at room temperature overnight. Water was added to the reaction mixture, which was then extracted with chloroform. The organic phase was separated out and the solvent was distilled off under reduced pressure to afford tert-butyl N-cyclobutylglycinate (949 mg) as the residue.

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