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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 11.
Published in final edited form as: Tetrahedron. 2011 Nov 11;67(45):8607–8614. doi: 10.1016/j.tet.2011.09.036

Table 6.

Effect of water concentration on the reaction rate in the absence of NEt3.

H2O (conc.
%)
Cata (mol%) %Conversion(0.25 h)
0 10 35b
2.5 10 35
5 10 37
10 10 39
20 10 62
2.5 200 81
a

Pyrrolidine.

b

Product 3a crystallized in the reaction medium in all cases except the last entry at the 0.5 h and the reactions were completed when checked at 4.5 h by 1H NMR.