Indene → Tert-butyl Spiro[indene-1,4'-piperidine]-1'-carboxylate

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In 60 ml of anhydrous tetrahydrofuran, 11.6 g (0.10 mole) of indene were dissolved, followed by the gradual dropwise addition of 200 ml (0.20 mole) of lithium bistrimethylsilylamide (a 1.0M tetrahydrofuran solution) for one hour under ice cooling. After stirring the reaction mixture for 30 minutes, 50 ml of a tetrahydrofuran solution of 24.2 g (0.10 mole) of N-t-butoxycarbonyl-bis(2-chloroethyl)amine were added dropwise to the reaction mixture for 20 minutes. The resulting mixture was further stirred for 2 hours under ice cooling. The reaction mixture was distilled under reduced pressure. The residue was purified by silica gel column chromatography (eluent; n-hexane:ethyl acetate=97:3), whereby 21.3 g (89%) of the title compound were obtained as white crystals.

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