Potassium Carbonate → 1-Methyl-4-(3-nitrobenzyl)piperazine

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m-Nitrobenzyl bromide (500 mg, 2.31 mmol) was added to a mixture of 1-methylpiperazine (277 mg, 2.77 mmol) and potassium carbonate (414 g, 3.0 mmol) in 5 mL of DMF. The mixture was stirred at 90° C. for 16 hours. After cooling to room temperature, the mixture was extracted into ethyl acetate (EtOAc), washed with water, brine and then dried with sodium sulfate (Na2SO4). Removal of the solvent and chromatography on silica, eluting with EtOAc/CH3OH/NH4OH (10:1:0.1, v/v), gave 510 mg of 1-methyl-4-(3-nitro-benzyl)-piperazine, which was converted to the title compound under normal hydrogenation conditions. The titled compound was obtained as a yellow solid (450 mg, 95%). 1H NMR (400 MHz, CDCl3) δ (ppm): 7.02 (t, J=7.6 Hz, 1H), 6.62 (s, 1H), 6.60 (d, J=7.6 Hz, 1H), 6.54 (d, J=7.6 Hz, 1H), 3.43 (s, 2H), 2.76 (br, 4H), 2.65 (br, 4H), 2.82 (m, 4H), 2.46 (s, 3H).

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