Lithium Hydroxide → 1-Benzyl-5-oxo-pyrrolidine-3-carboxylic acid

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Methyl 1-benzyl-5-oxo-3-pyrrolidinecarboxylate (2.00 g, 8.57 mmol) was dissolved in a mixed solvent of methanol (10 ml) and tetrahydrofuran (10 ml), followed by adding thereto a 2N aqueous lithium hydroxide solution (8.6 ml, 17.2 mmol), and the resulting mixture was heated under reflux for 20 minutes. After completion of the reaction, the reaction solution was ice-cooled, made into an acidic solution with an aqueous potassium hydrogensulfate solution, and then extracted with ethyl acetate. The ethyl acetate layer was concentrated, washed by repulping (ethyl acetate/hexane), and then dried to obtain 1-benzyl-5-oxo-3-pyrrolidinecarboxylic acid (1.83 g, 97%).

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