Aluminium lithium hydride → (1-Benzyl-3-methoxymethylpyrrolidin-3-yl)methanol

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A solution of 1-benzyl-3-methoxymethylpyrrolidine-3-carboxylic acid ethyl ester (Example A18a, 2.30 g, 8.3 mmol) in anhydrous tetrahydrofuran (10 mL) is added dropwise to an ice-cold suspension of lithium aluminum hydride (0.821 g, 22 mmol) in tetrahydrofuran (50 mL). The resulting mixture is stirred at room temperature for 18 hours, cooled and quenched by the sequential dropwise addition of 1N sodium hydroxide and water. The solids are removed by filtration, re-suspended in hot tetrahydrofuran and filtered. The combined filtrates are concentrated in vacuo and the residue is partitioned between dichloromethane and water. The organic extracts are dried over Na2SO4, filtered and concentrated under vacuum to afford the title compound (1.71 g). 1N NMR (200 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.41–7.17 (m, 5H), 3.84–3.43 (m, 4H), 3.34 (s, 2H), 3.32 (s, 3H), 2.85–2.60 (m, 2H), 2.54–2.14 (m, 3H), 1.98–1.50 (m, 2H).

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