Formaldehyde → 1208091-01-3

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A suspension of [2-methyl-4-(methyloxy)phenyl]amine (5 ml, 39.2 mmol), paraformaldehyde (5.88 g, 196 mmol), and sodium methoxide (10.58 g, 196 mmol) in methanol (100 ml) was maintained at 50° C. for 5 hours, cooled, and sodium borohydride (7.41 g, 196 mmol) was added portionwise. The resulting suspension was re-heated to 50° C. and maintained for 16 hours. The reaction was cooled, poured into ethyl acetate/saturated sodium bicarbonate, and the organic layer was dried over sodium sulfate, filtered, taken to a residue under reduced pressure, and purified by column chromatography to afford N,2-dimethyl-4-(methyloxy)aniline (5.40 g, 35.7 mmol, 91% yield) as a pale orange oil. 1H NMR (400 MHz, DMSO-d6) δ ppm 6.55-6.68 (m, 2 H), 6.34-6.40 (m, 1 H), 4.47-4.66 (m, 1 H), 3.62 (s, 3 H), 2.66 (d, J=5.0 Hz, 3 H), 2.04 (s, 3 H).

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