Potassium tert-butoxide → HCID 67505824, compound

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Potassium tert-butoxide (0.81 g, 7.2 mmol) was added to a suspension of methyltriphenylphosphonium bromide (2.58 g, 7.2 mmol) in tetrahydrofuran (20 mL) and the resulting mixture was stirred at room temperature for one hour. A solution of phenylmethyl 2-(3,4-difluorophenyl)-4-oxopiperidine-1-carboxylate (1.00 g, 2.9 mmol) (reagent preparation 20) in tetrahydrofuran (5 mL) was added and the resulting mixture was stirred at 35° C. for two hours. The mixture was cooled, diluted with hexane (100 mL), filtered, and the filtrate washed with water then brine, dried over sodium sulfate, filtered and concentrated. The residue was purified by silica gel chromatography (20% ethyl acetate in hexanes) to give phenylmethyl 2-(3,4-difluorophenyl)-4-methylidenepiperidine-1-carboxylate (0.79 g, 79% yield), MS (EI) for C20H19F2NO2: 344 (MH+).

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