tert-Butyl bromoacetate → HCID 131714543, compound

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To a suspension of potassium cyanate (186 mg, 2.3 mmol) in 2 ml of dimethylformamide was added t-butyl bromoacetate (0.356 ml, 2.2 mmol). The mixture was heated to 100° C. for 1 hour and cooled to room temperature. (3S-trans)-3-[[(t-Butyloxy)carbonyl]amino]-4-methyl-2-azetidinone (400 mg, 2.0 mmol) was then added, and the mixture was heated to 140° C. for 1 hour. Upon cooling to room temperature, the crude product was extracted from ice cold 5% HCl with three portions of ethyl acetate. The combined organic layers were extracted twice with water, once with aqueous potassium bicarbonate, and dried over sodium sulfate. The volatiles were removed, and the residue was subjected to chromatography on silica gel (eluting with 40% ethyl acetate-hexane) yielding 149 mg of the title compound.

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