Ammonium Chloride → 1-Boc-4-methyl-piperidin-4-OL

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A solution of N-Boc-piperidin-4-one (1.0 g, 5.0 mmol) was dissolved in THF (20 mL) and then cooled to −40° C. MeMgBr (2.8 M, 7.2 mL, 20 mmol) was added slowly over 10 min. The reaction mixture was allowed to warm to ambient temperature and stirred for 2 h. The mixture was cooled to 0° C. and saturated aqueous NH4Cl (50 mL) was added. The resulting mixture was extracted with EtOAc (100 mL). The organic layer was washed with water (50 mL) and brine (50 mL), dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate, and concentrated to afford tert-butyl 4-hydroxy-4-methylpiperidine-1-carboxylate (1.0 g, 92% yield) as a yellow oil.

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