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bottomed flask was added aniline (0.9 mmol), 4.5 M aq
HCl (0.9 mL), and Et O/THF/CH CN 7:6:1 (5 mL). The
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mixture was chilled to 5 ꢀC in an ice bath. A solution of
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1A1), to whom we are grateful.
NaNO (211 mg, 3.06 mmol) in CH CN/H O 2:3 (4 mL)
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was added and the reaction mixture was stirred at 0–5 ꢀC
for 1 h. A second 50 mL round bottomed flask was
charged with diethylamine (464 lL, 4.5 mmol), K
2 3
CO
Supplementary data
(
621 mg, 4.5 mmol), and CH CN/H O 2:1 (5 mL), which
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was chilled to 0–5 ꢀC in an ice bath. The solution of aniline
was transferred over 15 min to the first flask, and stirred
for an additional 1 h at 0–5 ꢀC. The solution was extracted
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with 3 · 10 mL Et O. The combined organic phases were
dried over Na SO , filtered, and concentrated in vacuo, to
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give a brown oil. Purification of the product by basic
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afforded a colorless oil in excellent yield. Compound 8b:
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1H), 4.97 (dt, J = 10.2, 0.9 Hz, 1H), 3.77–3.81 (m, 7H),
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3.76 (q, J = 7.1 Hz, 4H), 2.65 (t, J = 7.5 Hz, 2H), 2.20 (t,
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J = 7.1 Hz, 6H), 0.16 (s, 9H); C NMR (62.5 MHz,
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(q, J = 7.2 Hz, 2H), 1.68 (td, J = 15.1, 7.6 Hz, 2H), 1.23–
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1.30 (m, 9H); C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl ): d 166.6,
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S O
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1H), 6.88 (td, J = 7.5, 1.8 Hz, 1H), 5.80–5.81 (m, 1H),