Piperidine → Ethyl 2-methyl-4-piperidinobutyrate

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10.5 g. (0.05 mole) of ethyl γ-bromo-α-methylbutyrate was combined with 17.0 g. (0.20 mole) of piperidine and 100 ml. of benzene and stirred for 16 hours at room temperature and heated at 60° C. for 4 hours. The reaction mixture was cooled and the colorless solid which appeared was removed by filtration. The mother liquor was concentrated to give ethyl α-methyl-γ-piperidinobutyrate as a mobile yellow liquid which distilled (b.p. 78° C. at 0.25 mm.) as 6.7 g. (63%) of colorless liquid. The nuclear magnetic resonance and infrared spectra were consistent with the desired compound.

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