1,4-Dibromobutane → 1-[1,1-Dimethylethoxycarbonyl]-4-[3-(1-pyrrolidinyl)-2-pyridinyl]piperazine

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1-[1,1-Dimethylethoxycarbonyl]-4-[3-amino-2-pyridinyl]piperazine (International Publication No. WO 88/08424, 0.50 g), 1,4-dibromobutane (0.21 ml) and potassium carbonate (0.30 g) are refluxed in 4 ml of acetonitrile for 1 week. After 1 week, additional dibromobutane (0.21 ml) is added and refluxing is continued for 3 days. The reaction mixture is poured into water, extracted with methylene chloride, dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate and concentrated under reduced pressure. The concentrate is purified by flash chromatography eluting with ethyl acetate/hexane (10/90) to ethyl acetate/hexane (25/75). The appropriate fractions are pooled and concentrated to give the title compound, NMR (300 MHz, CDCl3) 7.78, 6.98, 6.78, 3.52, 3.20-3.10, 1.87 and 1.44 δ.

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