Hydrochloric Acid → 4-Piperidin-1-ylmethyl-benzylamine

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Add 4-(piperidin-1-ylmethyl)-benzonitrile (890 mg, 4.45 mmol), 2M hydrogen chloride in ether (8.9 mL, 17.8 mmol) and 10% Pd/C (90 mg) to methanol (100 mL) in a pressure vessel. Flush the vessel three times with hydrogen and charge to 50 psi with hydrogen. Stir at room temperature for 2 h. Filter the catalyst through Celite® and concentrate the filtrate in vacuo. Purify by chromatography on silica gel (100 g) eluting with a gradient of DCM to 4:1 DCM/(chloroform:methanol:concentrated NH4OH 80:18:2) to obtain the title compound as a colorless oil (0.82 g, 90%). MS (ES+) m/z: 205 (M+H)+.

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