Water → tert-Butyl ((S)-2-(3,5-difluorophenyl)-1-((S)-oxiran-2-yl)ethyl)carbamate

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To a 250 mL 3-neck round bottom flask equipped with magnetic stir bar, nitrogen inlet and thermocouple, is added tert-butyl (1S,2S)-3-chloro-1-(3,5-difluorobenzyl)-2-hydroxypropylcarbamate (IV, Step 3, 3.5 g, 0.010 moles, 1 equivalent) followed by absolute ethanol (60 mL) and cooled to 0°. To this mixture is added potassium hydroxide (0.73 g, 0.013 moles, 1.25 equivalents) dissolved in absolute ethanol (10 mL) over 1 hr and the resulting suspension is warmed to 15–20° and stirred for 1 hr. At this time, water (100 mL) is added and the reaction contents are cooled to −5° and stirred for 30 min. The solids are collected by filtration and washed with cold water (2×25 mL) then dried under reduced pressure at 45° to give the title compound; NMR (DMSO-d6) δ 7.03, 3.61, 2.68–2.98 and 1.33; CMR (DMSO-d6) δ 163.72, 161.29, 155.55, 143.35, 112.65, 101.80, 78.17, 53.42, 52.71, 44.90, 36.98 and 28.36.

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