Ethyl Acetate → tert-Butyl 4-(3-ethoxy-3-oxopropanoyl)piperidine-1-carboxylate

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To a mixture of ethyl N-Boc-piperidine-4-carboxylate (0.5 mol) and ethyl acetate (3 mol) t-BuOK (1.5 mol) was added in some portions at 0 C. The mixture was stirred at room temperature for 3 h (monitored by TLC), concentrated up to a half of volume, diluted with water (200 mL) and extracted with ether. Organic layer was dried over sodium sulfate and evaporated in vacuo. Purification by column chromatography (silica gel, ethyl acetate/hexane) afforded 4-(2-ethoxycarbonyl-acetyl)-piperidine-1-carboxylic acid tert-butyl ester (78 g, 52%)

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