Water → 1-(4-Bromobutyl)pyrrolidin-2-one

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To a suspension of sodium hydride(555 mg/13.9 mmol) in tetrahydrofuran (50 ml) was added 2-pyrrolidinone (0.7 ml/9.26 mmol) at ice-cooling temperature. The mixture was stirred for 1 h at ambient temperature, and then 1,4-dibromobutane (10 g/46.3 mmol) was added at the same temperature. The resulting mixture was stirred overnight. Water (10 ml) was added to the mixture and the mixture was extracted with ethyl acetate (50 ml×2). The combined extracts were washed with water and brine succesively, then dried over magnesium sulfate, filtered and concentrated. The residue was purified by column chromatography (80g/dichloromethane:methanol=100:0-100:5-100:10) to give a colorless oil(2.0 g/90%).

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