Ethyl 1-benzyl-4-oxopiperidine-3-carboxylate → 4-Oxo-piperidine-3-carboxylic acid ethyl ester

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To a solution of ethyl 1-benzyl-4-oxopiperidine-3-carboxylate (360.0 g, 1.21 mol) in EtOH (6.7 L) was added wet Pd/C (55.0 g) under N2 that then was replaced by H2. The reaction mixture was stirred at rt for 4 h, filtered and concentrated to give a crude product. The crude product was slurried with EtOH (200 mL) for 2 h and then filtered. The filtered cake was washed with MTBE and the combined organic phases were concentrated to give the title compound (222.0 g, 1.07 mol, 88.4%).

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