Water → HCID 178501147, compound

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The compound obtained in Reference Example 85(2) (mono-methyl trans-cyclohexane-1,4-dicarboxylate, 14.3 g) is dissolved in tetrahydrofuran (78 mL) and 1.0M boran-tetrahydrofuran complex solution in tetrahydrofuran (100 mL) is added dropwise thereto at −50° C. under argon gas atmosphere over a period of 1 hour. The mixture is stirred at −10° C. for 1 hour. To the reaction mixture is added water (160 mL) and a saturated sodium hydrogencarbonate solution (160 mL) under ice-cooling and the mixture is extracted with ethyl acetate (×4). The extract is washed with saturated brine, dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate and concentrated in vacuo. The residue is purified by flash column chromatography on silica gel (Solvent; chloroform:methanol=20:1) to give methyl trans-4-(hydroxymethyl)cyclohexanecarboxylate (13.25 g, yield; quantitative) as an oil. MS (APCI) m/z; 173 [M+H]+

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