Triethylamine → (S)-N-(Phenylmethyl)-2-[[(S)-2-(pivaloyloxyacetyl)-1-pyrrolidinyl]carbonyl]-1-pyrrolidinecarboxamide

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Triethylamine (0.59 ml), pivaloyl chloride (0.43 ml) were added, under ice-cooling, to a methylene chloride solution (25 ml) of (S)-2-[[(S)-2-(hydroxyacetyl)-1-pyrrolidinyl]carbonyl]-N-(phenylmethyl)-1-pyrrolidinecarboxamide (1.26 g) obtained in Example 5 and the mixture was stirred for 17 hours. The reaction mixture was poured into 5% potassium hydrogensulfate and extracted with methylene chloride. The extract was washed with saturated sodium hydrogencarbonate and water in order, dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate, and concentrated. The residue was purified by silica gel column chromatography (eluent: chloroform-methanol) to give the title compound (1.21 g) (see Table 1).

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