Piperazine → 1-(3-Nitrophenyl)piperazine

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A suspension of 3-fluoronitrobenzene (23 ml; 0.21 mol) and piperazine (55.5 g; 0.64 mol) in anhydrous NMP (30 ml) was heated to 70° C. for five days. The cooled mixture was diluted with water (250 ml) and extracted with dichloromethane. The combined extracts were dried over magnesium sulphate and concentrated under reduced pressure. The residue was purified by column-chromatography on silica gel eluting subsequently with mixtures of ethyl acetate and methanol (4:1 v/v) and (1:1 v/v) to leave the desired product as oily crystals (30.7 g; 71%).

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