Dimethyl Sulfoxide → tert-butyl (2S)-2-formylpyrrolidine-1-carboxylate

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To a solution of oxalyl chloride (28 mL, 56.2 mmol) in 14 mL dry CH2Cl2 cooled at -78° C. (a dry ice acetone bath) was added 12 mL dry DMSO over 40 minutes. The reaction was stirred at -74° C. for additional 40 minutes and (S)-2-(hydroxymethyl)-1-pyrrolidinecarboxylic acid, 1,1-dimethylethyl ester, (5.40 g, 26.86 mmol) in 14 mL CH2Cl2 was added dropwise at -65° C. over 30 minutes. The reaction stirred additional 20 minutes at room temperature and partitioned between Et2O and H2O. The Et2O layer was washed with more H2O (50 mL×4) and the H2O layers was extracted with Et2O (40 mL×3). All the Et2O layers was combined, washed with H2O, brine, dried over Na2SO4 and concentrated in vacuo. The crude product was isolated by a silica-gel column using EtOAc and hexane (1:5 ratio) as an eluting solvent to give title compound (84% yield).

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