Acetone → Ethyl 4-(propan-2-yl)piperazine-1-carboxylate

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A solution of ethyl 1-piperazinylcarboxylate (25.0 mL, 0.171 mole) and acetone (37.7 mL, 0.513 mole) in methanol (MeOH) (500 mL) was cooled to 0°-5° C. Sodium cyanoborohydride (10.7 g., 0.171 mole) was added in two portions. The so-formed mixture was stirred at 0°-5° C. for 8 hours while maintaining the pH at 4-6 by dropwise addition of 6N HCl. The temperature of the reaction mixture was allowed to slowly rise to RT overnight. The reaction mixture was evaporated in vacuo to provide a residue which was dissolved in H2CCl2 (500 mL) and 5% NaHCO3 (500 mL). The H2CCl2 layer was separated, washed with brine (500 mL), dried over anhydrous MgSO4, and evaporated in vacuo. The so-formed residue was chromatographed on silica gel, eluting with 1% MeOH/H2CCl2 (v/v) containing 1 mL of conc. NH4OH per liter of solution to give 18.9 g of the title compound of Example 67(a) as a gum, M/e, M+ 201.

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