Trifluoroacetic acid → Methyl-phenyl-carbamic Acid 4-{2-[4-(2-pyrrolidin-1-yl-ethoxy)-benzenesulfonylamino]-ethyl}-phenyl Ester

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To a stirred solution of 1-[2-(4-bromo-phenoxy)-ethyl]-pyrrolidine (6.72 g, 25 mmol) in THF (45 mL) was added dropwise 1.6 M solution in hexanes n-BuLi (14 mL, 22.4 mmol) over a 5-min period at −78° C. The mixture was stirred at −78° C. for 15 min. Then gaseous sulphur dioxide (ca. 6 g) was added causing an immediate precipitation. The mixture was allowed to warm to room temperature and stirred for 1 h. The precipitated lithium sulfinate was isolated by filtration under N2 (g), washed with THF (40 mL) and dried in vacuo providing 5.04 g (78%) of lithium; 4-(2-pyrrolidin-1-yl-ethoxy)-benzenesulfinate as a solid. This lithium sulfinate (179 mg, 0.69 mmol) was suspended in CH2Cl2 (2 mL) and stirred with NCS (80 mg, 0.60 mmol) for 10 min at rt. A solution of N-methyl-N-phenyl-carbamic acid 4-(2-amino-ethyl)phenyl ester as its TFA salt (0.55 mmol) in CH2Cl2 (3 mL) was added together with DIPEA (2.0 mmol). The mixture was stirred at rt for 16 h and evaporated to dryness. It was then redissolved in MeCN and purified by preparative HPLC (Gilson). This gave 89 mg (25%) of the title compound as its TFA salt as a crystals.

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