Triethylamine → N-((Methoxycarbonyl)methyl)4-Nitrophenylalanine Methyl Ester

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Triethylamine (22 mmol) was added to a suspension of 4-Nitrophenylalanine methyl ester hydrochloride (2) (21 mmol) in THF (50 ml). The mixture was stirred at room temperature for one hour, the triethylamine hydrochloride was filtered off, and the filtrate concentrated to yellow oil. The oil was dissolved in dry THF (50 ml) and to this solution was added triethylamine (60 mmol) and methylbromoacetate (60 mmol), the solution was stirred at room temperature under nitrogen atmosphere for 3 hours, after which the precipitate was filtered off and the filtrate concentrated on vacuum. The residue was dissolved in ethylacetate, washed with H2O, dried (MgSO4) and concentrated on vacuum to give yellow oil. The yield was 92%.

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