Triethylamine → Oxetan-3-ylmethyl methanesulfonate

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Oxetan-3-ylmethanol (1.85 g, 21.0 mmol) was dissolved in methylene chloride and cooled to 0° C. Triethylamine (5.31 g, 52.2 mmol) was added followed by slow addition of methanesulfonyl chloride (2.89 g, 25.2 mmol). The mixture was allowed to warm to ambient temperature for 2 h and quenched with sat. sodium bicarbonate (14 mL). The aqueous solution was extracted with methylene chloride 3×. The combined organic layers were dried over sodium sulfate, filtered and concentrated to give crude oxetan-3-ylmethyl methanesulfonate (quant.).

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