Trifluoroacetic acid → HCID 67458673, compound

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1,1-Dimethylethyl 1,3-dimethyl-5-oxoprolinate (0.770 g, 3.62 mmol) was suspended in dichloromethane (5 ml) and treated with trifluoroacetic acid (0.4 ml, 5.4 mmol). The mixture was stirred for 5 hrs and then evaporated. Azeotroping the resulting residue with toluene then gave unreacted starting material (0.600 g). This was again taken up in dichloromethane (2 ml) and treated with trifluoroacetic acid (2 ml) once more. After stirring for 2 hrs the mixture was evaporated and the residue again azeotroped with toluene (10 ml) to give crude 1,3-dimethyl-5-oxoproline (0.760 g) which was used without any additional purification.

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