Hydrochloric Acid → tert-Butyl 4-(1-(2-hydroxyethyl)-4-(tetrahydro-2H-pyran-4-yl)-1H-imidazol-2-yl)piperidine-1-carboxylate

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Combine tert-butyl 4-(1-(2-(tetrahydro-2H-pyran-2-yloxy)ethyl)-4-(tetrahydro-2H-pyran-4-yl)-1H-imidazol-2-yl)piperidine-1-carboxylate (6.88 g, 14.84 mmol), tetrahydrofuran (136 mL) and 1 N aqueous hydrochloric acid (25 mL). Stir the reaction at room temperature overnight. Dilute with ethyl acetate and wash with saturated aqueous sodium chloride and saturated aqueous sodium bicarbonate. Extract the combined aqueous layers with 9:1 dichloromethane:isopropyl alcohol. Dry the combined organic layers over anhydrous sodium sulfate, filter, and concentrate in vacuo. Purify by silica gel chromatography, eluting with hexanes to 50% ethyl acetate in hexanes to ethyl acetate to 10% methanol in ethyl acetate to 10% methanol in dichloromethane, to give the title compound as a white solid (4.48 g, 79%). MS (ES) m/z=380 [M]+.

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