Ammonia → 5-(Benzyloxy)-2-(hydroxymethyl)-1,4-dihydropyridin-4-one

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A mixture of 2-(hydroxymethyl)-5-[(phenylmethyl)oxy]-4H-pyran-4-one (9.65 g, 41.59 mmole), 95 ml of concentrated ammonia and 20 ml of ethanol were heated at reflux overnight. An additional 75 ml of ammonium hydroxide was added, the mixture was refluxed for 2 hours and cooled. The resulting brown solid was filtered and washed with water until the washings were neutral. The crude product was suspended in ethanol, filtered, washed with ethanol and hexane and dried in vacuo. The yield of the title compound was 7.61 g.

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