Water → HCID 18630658, compound

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A mixture of 4-amino-N-(t-butoxycarbonyl)piperidine (0.133 mol, 30.5 g, prepared by the method of Mach, R. H. et al., J. Med. Chem. (1993) 36(23), 3707-20) and triethylamine (1.5 equivilents, 0.2 mol, 20.2 g, 27.8 ml) in dimethylformamide (230 ml) was cooled to 0° C. and m-cyanophenylisocyanate (1.1 equivilents, 0.146 mmol, 21.1 g) in dimethylformamide (70 ml) was added dropwise. The reaction was stirred at ambient temperature for 18 h. It was poured into water and extracted with ethyl acetate (3×). The ethyl acetate extracts were washed with 1N HCl and brine, then dried (Na2SO4) and evaporated to give 43.56 g of crude material. Pure N-(3-cyanophenyl)-N′-(1-(t-butoxycarbonyl)piperidin-4-yl)urea was isolated by flash chromatography on silica gel (1.2 kg) eluted with 2:1 hexane:ethyl acetate (6 L) then 1:1 heaxane ethyl acetate collected in 800 ml fractions. Fractions 9 thru 14 contained pure product, yield 21.69 g.

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