Chloroacetyl chloride → (S)-tert-Butyl 2-((2-chloroacetamido)methyl)pyrrolidine-1-carboxylate

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DIPEA (1.34 ml, 7.5 mmol) was added to a solution of 1,1-dimethylethyl (2S)-2-(aminomethyl)-1-pyrrolidinecarboxylate (1 g, 5 mmol) in 50 ml of DCM; then chloroacetyl chloride (0.418 ml, 5.25 mmol) was slowly added and the reaction mixture stirred 1 h before being worked up. DCM was added and the organic phase was washed with a saturated solution of ammonium chloride. The crude was purified by flash chromatography eluting with cyclohexane/ethyl acetate 8/2 affording 1.24 g of the target material.

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