Water → 1-(1-benzylpyrrolidin-3-yl)-N-methylmethanamine

HRID 868101

Reaction equation

HRID 868101 reaction equation
[H-].[Al+3].[Li+].[H-].[H-].[H-].[CH3:7][NH:8][C:9]([CH:11]1[CH2:15][C:14](=O)[N:13]([CH2:17][C:18]2[CH:23]=[CH:22][CH:21]=[CH:20][CH:19]=2)[CH2:12]1)=O.O.[OH-].[Na+]>O1CCCC1>[CH3:7][NH:8][CH2:9][CH:11]1[CH2:15][CH2:14][N:13]([CH2:17][C:18]2[CH:19]=[CH:20][CH:21]=[CH:22][CH:23]=2)[CH2:12]1

Participants

6

Reactant 4

HCID 962Water2×HCID 14798Sodium HydroxideHCID 134917941-benzyl-N-methyl-5-oxopyrrolidine-3-carboxamideHCID 21226445Aluminium lithium hydride

Product 1

HCID 46608321-(1-benzylpyrrolidin-3-yl)-N-methylmethanamineYield 88.5%

Reagents, catalysts & solvents 1

HCID 8028TetrahydrofuranSolvent

Procedure

To a suspension of 37.40 g (1.00 mole) lithium aluminum hydride in 1000 ml tetrahydrofuran, is added a solution of 88.3 g (0.380 mole) of N-methyl-5-oxo-1-(phenylmethyl)-3-pyrrolidinecarboxamide in tetrafuran dropwise under nitrogen. The reaction was then refluxed overnight. The reaction flask was cooled in an ice bath and 37.4 ml of water, 37.4 ml of 15% sodium hydroxide and and 112.2 ml of water were added. The precipitated solids were filtered and washed with hot ethanol. The combined filtrates were concentrated, then dissolved in dichloromethane, filtered, dried over magnesium sulfate, and the solvent evaporated under reduced pressure to give 68.68 g of N-methyl-1-(phenylmethyl)-3-pyrrolidinemethanamine as an oil. This material was used without further purification in the step.

Workup

  1. temperatureThe reaction was then refluxed overnight
  2. temperatureThe reaction flask was cooled in an ice bath
  3. filtrationThe precipitated solids were filtered
  4. washwashed with hot ethanol
  5. concentrationThe combined filtrates were concentrated
  6. dissolutiondissolved in dichloromethane
  7. filtrationfiltered
  8. dry with materialdried over magnesium sulfate
  9. customthe solvent evaporated under reduced pressure

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-5faa6c632d0849c6a21863d5c0faba0c
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1988_10
Patent number
US04777175

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