Trifluoroacetic acid → (S)-5-oxopyrrolidine-3-carboxylic acid

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To (S)-1-(2,4-dimethoxybenzyl)-5-oxopyrrolidine-3-carboxylic acid (5.3 g) were added anisole (3.1 ml) and trifluoroacetic acid (26.5 ml) at room temperature, and the mixture was stirred for 4 hours at reflux. This reaction solution was cooled to room temperature, concentrated under reduced pressure, azeotropic-dried with toluene. To the resulting residue was added diisopropyl ether (53 ml), and the mixture was stirred at room temperature. A solid was collected from this suspension by filtration, washed with diisopropyl ether, and dried under reduced pressure to give the titled compound (2.4 g).

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