Iodine → HCID 67981148, compound

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Reaction Steps

Magnesium (1.86 g, 77.4 mmol) was suspended in diethyl ether (70 mL) and to the suspension was added iodine (17.8 mg, 0.07 mmol). Bromo-cyclobutane (10 g, 70 mmol) was added slowly and the mixture was refluxed for 3 h. To a solution of 4′-(trifluoromethyl)biphenyl-4-carbonitrile (300 mg, 1.21 mmol) (prepared as in Example 1.25 Step A, using 4-bromobenzonitrile) in tetrahydrofuran (3 mL) was added this prepared Grignard (334 mg, 6.06 mL in diethyl ether, 6.06 mmol) at 0° C. under nitrogen. The resulting mixture was heated in a microwave at 100° C. for 1 hr. After that time, methanol (5 mL) and sodium borohydride (91.8 mg, 2.43 mmol) were carefully added at 0° C. After stirring for 5 minutes, the reaction mixture was quenched with saturated ammonium chloride (20 mL) and extracted with ethyl acetate (3×10 mL). The combined organic layers were concentrated. Purification by column chromatography (0-6% methanol/dichloromethane) gave cyclobutyl(4′-(trifluoromethyl)biphenyl-4-yl)methanamine (0.100 g, 27%) as a yellow solid.

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