Triethylamine → 3-[(tert-Butoxycarbonyl)amino]benzyl Methanesulfonate

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1-[3-[(tert-Butoxycarbonyl)amino]phenyl]methanol (10 g, 44.8 mmoles) (Ref.: F. J. Brown, P. R. Bernstein, L. A. Cronk, D. L. Dosset, K. C. Hebbel. T. P. Maduskuie, Jr., H. S. Shapiro, E. P. Vacek, Y. K. Lee, A. K. Willard, R. D. Krell and D. W. Snyder, J. Med. Chem., 32, 1989, 807-826) and triethylamine (13 g, 17.9 mL, 138.4 mmoles) were dissolved in anhydrous THF (169 mL) and the solution was stirred and cooled to −50° C. Methanesulfonyl chloride (10.26 g, 7.02 mL, 89.6 mmoles) in anhydrous THF (85 mL) was added dropwise over a period of 20 min at −50° C. under an argon atmosphere. The mixture was stirred at −50° C. for an additional 20 min. A saturated aqueous solution of ammonium chloride (12.9 g) was added and the mixture was warmed to 25° C. The mixture was filtered and the filtrate was extracted twice with ethyl acetate. The ethyl acetate was washed with brine, water, dried (MgSO4), filtered and evaporated to dryness to give the title compound (14.78 g). The material was used without further purification.

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