Trimethylamine → 2-({[(Prop-2-yn-1-yl)oxy]carbonyl}oxy)ethyl 2-methylprop-2-enoate

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A flask equipped with a stirrer, thermometer, nitrogen gas tube and reflux condenser was charged with 13.0 g of 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate and 11.5 g of trimethylamine in 50.0 g of methylene chloride. To the flask was added 13.0 g of propargyl chloroformate dropwise over one hour. The mixture was allowed to react for 6 hours at 30° C. After the reaction, the mixture was treated with methylene chloride-water mixture. The organic phase was separated and dried over magnesium sulfate. After filtering, the filtrate was evaporated in a rotary evaporator. The resulting residue was applied on a 200 mesh silica gel column and developed with ethyl acetate-hexane mixture. The title compound was obtained as colorless liquid. Yield was 73.6% of theory.

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