Thionyl Chloride → HCID 86596721, compound

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To methyl (S)-4-amino-2-hydroxybutyrate hydrochloride (170.1 mg; 133.5 mg when calculated as methyl (S)-4-amino-2-hydroxybutyrate) was added 3 ml of 4 N-HCl/dioxane, followed by further addition of 189.1 mg of thionyl chloride. The mixture was stirred at room temperature for 1 hour. Thereafter, 2.5 mg of pyridine was added, and the mixture was further stirred at 50° C. for 6 hours. After confirmation of disappearance of the starting material by TLC, the solvent was distilled off under reduced pressure to give methyl (R)-4-amino-2-chlorobutyrate hydrochloride. To this were added 10 ml of chloroform and 5 ml of a saturated aqueous solution of sodium hydrogen carbonate, and the aqueous layer was further extracted six times with chloroform. The organic layer was dried over sodium sulfate and the solvent was distilled off to give 120.7 mg of (R)-3-chloro-2-pyrrolidinone (yield quantitative, optical purity 93.9% ee) The optical purity was determined by high performance liquid chromatography using a chiral column (Chiralcel OB-H (Daicel)).

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