Diethyl Ether → tert-Butyl 4-fluoro-4-(hydroxymethyl)piperidine-1-carboxylate

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Lithium aluminium hydride (1M in THF) (2.36 mL, 2.361 mmol) was added dropwise to a stirred solution of 1-tert-butyl 4-ethyl 4-fluoropiperidine-1,4-dicarboxylate (325 mg, 1.180 mmol) in THF (5.90 mL) cooled to 0° C. After 10 min ether (15 mL) was added and the reaction was quenched by sequential dropwise addition of water (0.1 mL), 10% NaOH (0.1 mL) and water (0.3 mL). The mixture was stirred at room temperature and the lithium salts that had precipitated were filtered off and washed with fresh ether. The organic filtrates were combined and solvent was removed in vacuo to leave a clear gum. The crude product was taken up in chloroform and loaded onto a 25+M Biotage silica column. Chromatography, eluting with a gradient of EtOAc in hexanes, gave tert-butyl 4-fluoro-4-(hydroxymethyl)piperidine-1-carboxylate (189 mg, 0.810 mmol, 69%) as a clear gum.

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