Water → 1-(3-Nitrophenyl)piperazine

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A mixture of 3-fluoronitrobenzene (10.7 ml, 0.1 mol) and piperazine (43 g, 0.5 mol) in anhydrous NMP was heated to 115° C. for 2 days. After cooling the mixture was poured into water (200 ml) and extracted with ethyl acetate (3×50 ml). The combined organic extracts were washed with brine, dried over sodium sulfate and concentrated under reduced pressure. The residue was purified by column-chromatography on silica gel with a mixture of dichloromethane, methanol and aqueous ammonia (90:10:1 v/v/v) as the eluent to yield 1-(3-nitrophenyl)piperazine (17.2 g, 83%). This intermediate was acetylated with acetic acid anhydride (yield: 90%) and hydrogenated in methanol at ambient pressure using Pd (5% on activated carbon) as the catalyst to yield 2d (11.9 g, 74%) as off-white crystals.

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