Triethylamine → Methanesulfonic acid (5R)-3-(3-fluoro-4-iodo-phenyl)-2-oxo-oxazolidin-5-ylmethyl ester

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A solution of (5R)-3-(3-fluoro-4-iodo-phenyl)-5-hydroxymethyl-oxazolidin-2-one (1019, 25.2 g, 74.8 mmol) in methylene chloride (CH2Cl2, 150 mL) was treated with triethylamine (TEA, 15.15 g, 20.9 mL, 150 mmol, 2.0 equiv) at 25° C., and the resulting mixture was cooled down to 0-5° C. before methanesulfonyl chloride (MsCl, 10.28 g, 6.95 mL, 89.7 mmol, 1.2 equiv) was dropwise introduced into the reaction mixture at 0-5° C. under N2. The resulting reaction mixture was subsequently stirred at 0-5° C. for 1 h under N2. When TLC and HPLC/MS showed that the reaction was complete, the reaction mixture was quenched with H2O (100 mL) and CH2Cl2 (100 mL). The two layers were separated, and the aqueous layer was extracted with CH2Cl2 (100 mL). The combined organic extracts were washed with H2O (2×100 mL) and saturated NaCl aqueous solution (100 mL), dried over MgSO4, and concentrated in vacuo. The residue was further dried in vacuo to afford the crude, (5R)-methanesulfonic acid 3-(3-fluoro-4-iodo-phenyl)-2-oxo-oxazolidin-5-ylmethyl ester (1020, 30.71 g, 31.04 g theoretical, 98.9%) as off-white powders, which was found to be essentially pure and was directly used in the subsequent reactions without further purifications. For 1020: C11H11FINO5S, LCMS (EI) m/e 416 (M++H).

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