Sodium Cyanide → 4-(3-Cyanopropyl)-1-piperidinecarboxaldehyde

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4-(3-Bromopropyl)-1-piperidinecarboxaldehyde (60 g, 0.256 M) and NaCN (25 g) in ethanol (600 ml) was refluxed for 7 hours, Solvent was removed, added water (300-400 ml) and extracted with CH2Cl2 (4×200 ml). The extracts, dried over Na2SO4 was stripped to dryness which was purified on silica gel columns, eluted with ethylacetate-hexane (8:2 parts by volume) to yield 4-(3-cyanopropyl)-1-piperidinecarboxaldehyde (28.4 g, 61% yield).

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