Sodium hydride → HCID 42633817, compound

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Sodium hydride (1.14 g, 60% dispersion in mineral oil, 28.6 mmol) was suspended in heptane (10 mL) under an argon atmosphere. The heptane was decanted off, and the flask was charged with THF (20 mL) and cooled to 0° C. A solution of 1,4-dimethyl-(R)-2-hydroxymethyl piperazine (Intermediate 4; 1.38 g, 9.5 mmol) in THF (20 mL) was added drop-wise, followed by a solution of the 4-nitrophenyl 4-phenylpiperazine-1-carboxylate (Intermediate 2; 4.06 g, 12.4 mmol) in THF (20 mL). The reaction mixture was allowed to warm to room temperature, stirred for 16 hours, the reaction mixture was cooled to 0° C. then quenched with the drop-wise addition of sat aq NaHCO3 solution and concentrated in vacuo. The residue was dissolved in EtOAc (200 mL), washed with sat aq NaHCO3 solution (4×50 mL), dried (MgSO4) and concentrated in vacuo. The residue was suspended in water:formic acid solution [1:1] (20 mL), filtered and the filtrate was purified by reverse phase column chromatography (gradient eluting with methanol in water, with 1% formic acid in each solvent, 0-15%). The resulting residue was dissolved in DCM (50 mL) and stirred with solid K2CO3 for 20 minutes, filtered and concentrated in vacuo to give [(2R)-1,4-dimethylpiperazin-2-yl]methyl 4-phenylpiperazine-1-carboxylate (1.93 g, 61%) as a pale yellow solid.

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