Hydrochloric Acid → 4-(3-Chloro-4-fluorophenoxy)piperidine

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DEAD (0.43 ml) was added to a solution of triphenylphosphine (0.72 g), 3-chloro-4-fluorophenol (0.403 g) and 4-hydroxy-piperidine-1-carboxylic acid tert-butyl ester (0.5 g) in THF at RT. The resulting mixture was stirred overnight, HCl in dioxan (2 ml of 4M) was added and the mixture stirred at RT overnight. The mixture was then evaporated to dryness and triethylamine (5 ml) was added. The mixture was evaporated and the residue was dissolved in methanol (10 ml), placed onto a SCX cartridge (Varian, 10 g, SCX cartridge available from International Sorbent Technology Isolute® Flash SCX-2) and eluted: first with methanol then with 10% NH3 in methanol. The basic fractions were combined and evaporated to give the product as an oil (0.6 g).

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