Sodium hydride → HCID 59383070, compound

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A flame dried 250 mL round bottom flask was charged with sodium hydride (60% in oil, 1.45 g, 36.2 mmol) and trimethyloxosulfonium iodide (8.05 g, 36.5 mmol). The flask was evacuated and refilled with N2. Dry DMSO (50 mL) was added and the mixture was stirred at rt for 1 h. A portion of this solution (14.5 mL, 10.5 mmol, 1.5 equiv) was added by syringe to a 150 mL round bottom flask which had been charged with (R)-tert-butyl 3-(3-chlorobenzoyl)-piperidine-1-carboxylate (2.27 g, 7 mmol) and THF (30 mL) and placed under N2. The resulting mixture was stirred for 1 h at rt. The reaction mixture was quenched with brine and extracted with EtOAc (3×). The combined organic phase was washed with brine, dried over Na2SO4, filtered and concentrated in vacuo to give (3R)-tert-butyl 3-(2-(3-chlorophenyl)oxiran-2-yl)piperidine-1-carboxylate as a mixture of two isomers (2.32 g, 6.9 mmol, 99% yield), which was used in the next step without further purification. 1H NMR (400 MHz, CDCl3): 1.40 (s, 9H), 1.55-1.72 (m, 3H), 1.85 (m, 1H), 2.01 (m, 1H), 2.35-2.60 (m, 2H), 2.65 (d, 1H), 3.063 (d, 1H), 4.05 (m, 1H), 4.15 (m, 1H), 7.26 (m, 3H), 7.34 (s, 1H); MS (E/Z): 338 (M+H+)

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