Stearoyl chloride → HCID 20377403, compound

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Stir a suspension of 6.31 g of 3-hydroxyazetidine acetate in 150 ml dry pyridine until a solution results. Add 15.8 g stearoyl chloride at room temperature during ten minutes and stir for 21 hours at room temperature. Pour into 450 ml of an ice-water mixture, and extract once with 300 ml ethyl ether and then twice with 250 ml portions chloroform. Wash the combined extracts with three 150 ml portions of water, dry over anhydrous sodium sulfate and remove the solvents in vacuo. Stir the residue in 250 ml hexane and filter the resultant solid. Recrystallization from hexane affords pure 1-octadecanoyl-3-hydroxyazetidine, m.p. 86°-87.5° C.

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