Benzaldehyde → 1-Benzyl-hexahydro-4H-azepin-4-one

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To a suspension of azepan-4-one (8.0 g, 53.47 mmol, 1.0 eq.) in methylene chloride (100 ml) was added TEA followed by benzaldehyde and reaction mixture was stirred at RT for 30 min. Na(OAc)3BH was added portionwise to the reaction mixture and it was then stirred at RT for another 4 h. The reaction mixture was quenched with NaOH (2 M, 80 ml) and extracted with methylene chloride (3×100 ml). The organic layer was dried over Na2SO4 and solvent was evaporated under reduced pressure to afford the crude product which was purified by column chromatography (silica gel, 20% EtOAc/hexanes) to yield the desired product as an oil. Yield: 78% (8.5 g, 41.87 mmol).

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