Sulfuric Acid → (2S)-3-methyl-2-(phenylformamido)butanoic acid

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A solution of valine (20 g, 0.17 mole) in tetrahydrofuran (20 ml) and 2N NaOH (111 ml) was cooled down to 10° (ice-water bath) under nitrogen and treated dropwise with benzoyl chloride (23.8 ml, 0.21 mole). The reaction mixture was warmed up to room temperature, stirred for 3.0 hours then cooled back down to 0° (ice-salt bath) and treated with concentrated sulfuric acid (8.0 ml). The mixture was extracted with ethyl acetate (3×200 ml). The combined organic extracts were washed with water (100 ml), brine (50 ml), dried (anhydrous MgSO4), filtered and evaporated to dryness to give title compound as a solid (41.97 g, 100% crude yield).

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