4-Nitrophenyl chloroformate → 3-(5-Iodo-pyridin-2-yloxy)-azetidine-1-carboxylic acid 4-nitro-phenyl ester

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4-nitrophenyl chloroformate (692 mg g, 3.44 mmol) was added to a stirred solution of 2-(1-Benzhydryl-azetidin-3-yloxy)-5-iodo-pyridine (1.01 g, 2.29 mol) in dichloromethane (40 mL) at ambient temperature. The resulting solution was stirred at ambient temperature for 18 hr. The solvent was removed in vacuo and the product purified by flash chromatography on silica gel (25 g) eluting with dichloromethane to afford the title compound as a colourless solid (474 mg, 47%).

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