Sodium hydride → 2-[4-(4-Bromo-phenyl)-1-(2-trimethylsilanyl-ethoxymethyl)-1H-imidazol-2-yl]-4-hydroxy-pyrrolidine-1-carboxylic acid tert-butyl ester

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2-[5-(4-Bromo-phenyl)-1H-imidazol-2-yl]-4-hydroxy-pyrrolidine-1-carboxylic acid tert-butyl ester (500 mg) was dissolved in DMF (8 mL), and NaH (54 mg) was added. The mixture was stirred over 10 min. and SEM-Cl was added slowly, and then stirred for 2 hours. The mixture was quenched with 3 mL of sat. NH4Cl and was taken up in ethyl acetate (100 mL). The organic phase was washed with saturated sodium bicarbonate (1×100 mL) and dried over sodium sulfate. After the solvent was removed, the resulting oil was subjected to silica gel chromatography using effluent of 20-50% ethyl acetate and hexanes. The fractions containing product were combined and the solvent was removed under reduced pressure to provide 2-[4-(4-Bromo-phenyl)-1-(2-trimethylsilanyl-ethoxymethyl)-1H-imidazol-2-yl]-4-hydroxy-pyrrolidine-1-carboxylic acid tert-butyl ester (648 mg, 98%) as an off-white solid.

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