Hydrochloric Acid → tert-Butyl 4-(methylamino)piperidine-1-carboxylate

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Methylamine hydrochloride (2.36 g) is dissolved in methanol (50 ml) and potassium hydroxide pellets (0.60 g) and N-(1,1-di-methylethoxycarbonyl)-4-piperidone are added. Sodium cyanoborohydride (0.69 g) in methanol (5 ml) is added and the mixture is stirred 2 hrs. Potassium hydroxide pellets (1.96 g) are added to the mixture which is stirred 1 hr and acidified to pH 2 with 6M hydrochloric acid and concentrated. The mixture is diluted with water (50 ml) and extracted with ether (3×80 ml) which is discarded. The aqueous layer is basified to pH 11 with potassium hydroxide pellets, saturated with sodium chloride and extracted with ether (6×80 ml). The combined organic extracts are dried with magnesium sulfate and concentrated to afford an oil which is chromatographed on silica gel with a methanol/chloroform gradient (5-30%). Fractions are pooled on the basis of TLC (Rf =0.13, 20% methanol/chloroform) to give the title compound, NMR (CDCl3) 4.04, 2.79, 2.54, 2.46, 2.33, 1.88, 1.46, and 1.26 δ.

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