Potassium tert-butoxide → (4aS,7aR)-Hexahydro-cyclopenta[d][1,3]oxazin-2-one

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To a solution of ((1R,2S)-2-hydroxymethyl-cyclopentyl)-carbamic acid tert-butyl ester (1.6 g, 7.43 mmol) in THF (40 ml) was added potassium tert-butoxide (3.34 g, 29.7 mmol, 4.0 equiv.) at room temperature. After stirring for 1 h at 60° C. the reaction was allowed to warm up to room temperature and after workup with Ethyl acetate/water, drying and concentration in vacuo, the crude material mixture was adsorbed on silica and chromatographed over a prepacked silica column (50 g, 50% to 100% EtOAc in Heptane gradient) to yield 950 mg (91%) of the title compound as a white solid, which was directly used in the next step.

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