Triethylamine → Benzyl tert-butyl piperazine-1,4-dicarboxylate

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Commercially available N-tert-butyloxycarbonyl-piperazine (0.5 g, 2.68 mmol) was dissolved in 5 mL of THF:water (1:1) and cooled in an ice bath. Triethylamine (0.748 mL, 5.4 mmol), followed by benzyloxycarbonyl chloride (0.575 mL, 3.21 mmol) in diethyl ether was slowly added to the reaction mixture. It was stirred at 0° C. for 1.5 hours. Solvents were removed and 50 mL of ethyl acetate was added to the residue. The ethyl acetate layer was washed with saturated NaHCO3 (20 mL×3), brine (20 mL×3), and dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate. N-tert-butyloxycarbonyl-N'-benzyloxycarbonyl-piperazine (1.0 g) was obtained after evaporated to dryness in quantitative yield. MS: M+NH4 =338. M+H+ =321.

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