Triethylamine → Cyclopropylmethyl methanesulfonate

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Cyclopropylcarbinol (27.4 g; 0.373 mol) and methanesulfonyl chloride (47.56 g; 0.407 mol) in dry ether (250 ml) was cooled to -20° C. under dry nitrogen. Triethylamine (59 ml; 0.42 mol) is added dropwise over 45 min with external cooling so that the reaction temperature remained below -15° C. The reaction mixture was allowed to warm to room temperature over 2 h and then filtered. The solid material is washed with ether. The solutions were combined and evaporated, to afford crude cyclopropylmethyl methanesulfonate (58.36 g) as a pale yellow liquid, which was used without further purification. NMR - d(CDCl3 ; 60 MHz) 0.3-1.5 (5H, m), 3.0 (3H, s) and 4.0 (2H, d, J=7 Hz).

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