Water → tert-Butyl 3-(hydroxymethyl)azetidine-1-carboxylate

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Lithium aluminum hydride (128 mg) was placed in a round-bottomed flask and suspended in tetrahydrofuran (30 ml). This was cooled in an ice bath, and a solution of methyl 1-tert-butoxycarbonylazetidine-3-carboxylate (970 mg) in tetrahydrofuran (10 ml) was gradually added thereto, followed by stirring under a nitrogen atmosphere at the same temperature for 1 hr. To the reaction mixture were added water (0.13 ml) and a 5N aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide (0.13 ml) and water (0.39 ml) while cooling in an ice bath, followed by stirring at the same temperature for 1 hr. Insoluble matter in the reaction mixture was removed by filtration. The filtrate was concentrated to provide the titled compound as a colorless oil (805 mg, 95.3%).

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