Water → tert-Butyl 3-(hydroxymethyl)azetidine-1-carboxylate

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Lithium aluminium hydride (128 mg) was placed in a round bottomed flask, and suspended in tetrahydrofuran (30 ml). The suspension was cooled in an ice bath, and a solution of methyl 1-tert-butoxycarbonylazetidine-3-carboxylate (970 mg) in tetrahydrofuran (10 ml) was added gradually, followed by stirring at the same temperature under a nitrogen atmosphere for 1 hour. Water (0.13 ml), a 5N aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide (0.13 ml) and water (0.39 ml) was added to the reaction mixture with cooling in an ice bath, followed by stirring at the same temperature for 1 hour. Insoluble matter in the reaction mixture was removed by filtration. The filtrate was concentrated to give the title compound (805 mg, 95.3%) as a colorless oil.

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