Methyl iodide → [(3S,4R)-1-Benzyl-4-(4-chloro-3-fluoro-phenyl)-pyrrolidin-3-yl]-methyl-carbamic acid tert-butyl ester

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A mixture of 5.7 g (14.1 mmol) [(3S,4R)-1-Benzyl-4-(4-chloro-3-fluoro-phenyl)-pyrrolidin-3-yl]-carbamic acid tert-butyl ester, 676 mg (17 mmol) NaH (55%) in DMF was stirred for 20 minutes at room temperature and 1 h at 60° C. 3 g (21 mmol) iodomethane in DMF was added and the mixture was stirred at 60° C. for 1 h and evaporated. The residue was taken up in ethyl acetate and water, the organic layer washed with brine and back-extracted with ethyl acetate. The combined organic layers were dried with Na2SO4, filtered off and evaporated. The residue was taken up on isolute and subjected to column chromatography on silica eluting with a gradient formed from ethyl acetate and heptane to yield after evaporation of the product containing fractions 2.67 g (45%) of the title compound as light yellow oil. MS m/e: 419.2 [M+H]+.

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