Benzyl Alcohol → Benzyl cyclopent-3-en-1-ylcarbamate

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A solution of 3-cyclopentene-1-carboxylic acid (Depres and Greene, J. Org. Chem. 1962, 27:2395-2398) (30.5 g, 0.272 mole) in dry benzene (360 mL) was stirred while a solution of diphenylphosphoryl azide (Aldrich, 74.85 g, 0.272 mole as 97%) and triethylamine (41.7 mL, 0.299 mole) in benzene (130 mL) was added over 20 minutes. The solution was refluxed for 2 hours and then benzyl alcohol (32.4 mL, 0.313 mole) was added. The solution was refluxed for 20 hours, cooled, and concentrated in vacuo to a brown oil. A solution of the oil in ethyl acetate (600 mL) was washed with 0.5 N hydrochloric acid (300 mL), then water (2×350 mL), then saturated aqueous sodium bicarbonate (300 mL), and dried (sodium sulfate). Evaporation left title compound as white solid (41.0 g, 69%), 1H-NMR consistent with structure. Recrystallization of such a sample from ethyl acetate-hexanes gave benzyl N-(3-cyclopenten-1-yl)carbamate as colorless waxy crystals, m.p. 56-57° C.

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