Sodium Carbonate → cis-3,7-dimethylhexahydro-1H-azepine-2-one

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Into 40 ml of xylene were added 3.1 g of cis-2,6-dimethylcyclohexanone oxime and 12 g of polyphosphoric acid, the mixture was stirred for 10 hours at 100° C. The reaction mixture was cooled to near room temperature, poured into ice-water. Sodium carbonate was added to the mixture, and the mixture was extracted with ethyl acetate three times. The organic layers was washed with a saturated sodium chloride aqueous solution, dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate and concentrated. The residue was subjected to silica gel column chromatography to obtain 2.5 g of cis-3,7-dimethylhexahydro-1H-azepine-2-one.

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