Water → (S,S)-N-(2-hydroxycyclopentyl)-1-isopropyl-6-methylergoline-8-carboxamide

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To a suspension of 6.24 g of 1-isopropyl-6-methylergoline-8-carboxylic acid in 120 ml of dimethylformamide under a nitrogen atmosphere were added 3.2 g of 1,1'-carbonyldiimidazole. After stirring for approximately four hours, a solution of 2.02 g of trans-2-aminocyclopentanol in 40 ml of dimethylformamide was added with stirring. After stirring at room temperature overnight, the mixture was added to water. The resulting precipitate was extracted three times into methylene chloride. The combined organic extracts were washed with a saturated sodium chloride solution, dried over sodium sulfate, and concentrated in vacuo. The resulting solid was purified by preparative high pressure liquid chromatography over silica gel eluting with methylene chloride/methanol/ammonium hydroxide (100:10:1). The appropriate fractions containing the more mobile diastereomer were combined, concentrated to dryness, and crystallized from methanol to provide 1.15 g of the desired title isomer, m.p. 260°-263° C. NMR, MS.

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