Methanol → HCID 178525566, compound

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Reaction Steps

Trifluoroacetic acid (44.6 mL, 583.0 mmol, 30.0 eq) is added at room temperature to a stirred solution of (trans-4-tert-butoxycarbonylamino-cyclohexyl)-acetic acid (5.0 g, 19.4 mmol, 1.0 eq) in dichloromethane (50 mL). After 3 hours stirring at room temperature, the reaction mixture is concentrated, the resulting residue is dissolved in pyridine (150 mL) and phthalic anhydride (5.0 g, 33.0 mmol, 1.7 eq) is added at room temperature. The reaction mixture is heated to reflux for 4 hours, pyridine is then removed and acetic anhydride (40 mL) is added. The resulting mixture is heated to reflux for 3 hours, then extracted with ethyl acetate (3×200 mL) and water (200 mL). The combined organic layers are dried over sodium sulfate, filtered and concentrated to give a residue that is purified by column chromatography (silica gel, eluent: dichloromethane:methanol, 50:1 to 10:1, v/v) to afford [trans-4-(1,3-dioxo-1,3-dihydro-isoindol-2-yl)-cyclohexyl]-acetic acid as a white solid (4.82 g, 86% yield).

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