Sodium Hydroxide → 2-(4-Bromobenzyl)-1-methylpyrrolidine

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Add 11.4 moles of bromine at room temperature to 2 g of 2-benzyl-1-methylpyrrolidine and 50 mg of iron powder. Allow the resulting mixture to stand for 2 hours before rendering it alkaline 1 N sodium hydroxide solution. Extract the base with diethyl ether. Distil the ether extract to obtain the title compound as almost-colorless liquid of b.p. 72° at 0.001 mm of Hg.

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