Water → Ethyl 4-benzylhomopiperazine-1-carboxylate

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Potassium carbonate (0.80 g) was added to a solution of 0.86 g of ethyl 1-homopiperazinecarboxylate and 0.90 g of benzylbromide in 5 ml of tetrahydrofuran, and the mixture was refluxed for 4 hours. Thereafter, water was added, and the mixture was extracted with ethyl acetate, and the organic layer was washed with saturated aqueous solution of sodium chloride, dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate and concentrated under reduced pressure. The residue was subjected to silica gel column chromatography. Elution with a hexane-ethyl acetate (2:1) mixture gave 1.06 g of ethyl 4-benzylhomopiperazine-1-carboxylate.

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