Acetic Acid → tert-Butyl 1H-pyrrol-1-ylcarbamate

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A mixture of tert-butyl carbazate (5.51 g, 41.7 mmol), 2,5-dimethoxytetrahydrofuran (6.5 mL, 50.0 mmol) and acetic acid (33.6 mL) in dioxane (80 mL) was refluxed for 3 h; then cooled, the dark brown reaction mixture was concentrated, the resulting residue was directly silica gel column purified (eluents: 10% EtOAc in hexanes to 50% EtOAc in hexanes) to give the desired product (951 mg) as white solid. 1H NMR (CDCl3, δ in ppm): 7.17 (s, br, 1H), 6.66 (m, 2H), 6.11 (m, 2H), 1.49 (s, 9H).

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