Methanol → (2-Pyridin-3-ylethyl)pyridin-4-ylmethylamine

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4-Pyridinecarbaldehyde (5.36 g, 50 mmol) and 3-(2-aminoethyl)pyridine (6.5 ml, 50 mmol) were added to methanol (100 ml), and stirred at room temperature for 7 hours. The resulting mixture was cooled to 0° C. Sodium borohydride (2.8 g, 74 mmol) was added to the mixture, and stirred at 0° C. for 1 hour. Water was then added to the reaction mixture to distill the methanol off under reduced pressure. The residue was extracted with dichloromethane. The organic layer was washed with a saturated sodium chloride aqueous solution, dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate, and concentrated under reduced pressure. The residue was purified by basic silica gel column chromatography (ethyl acetate:methanol=95:5→85:5). The purified product was concentrated under reduced pressure to thereby obtain 10.03 g (yield: 94%) of (2-pyridin-3-ylethyl)pyridin-4-ylmethylamine as a colorless oil.

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