Water → (2R)-1-(benzyloxy)propan-2-ol

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(2R)-2-tetrahydropyranyloxy-1-hydroxypropane (60 g, 0.37 mol) was dropwise added to a suspension of sodium hydride (60%) (22 g) in THF (100 ml) under ice cooling. After completion of the dropwise addition, a solution of benzyl bromide (70 g) in DMF (300 ml) was dropwise added, followed by agitating the mixture at room temperature for 6 hours, pouring it into water (500 ml), extracting with toluene (300 ml), washing the resulting organic layer with water, concentrating it, dissolving the concentrate in ethanol (300 ml), adding 6N-hydrochloric acid (20 ml), agitating the mixture at 20° C. for 2 hours, distilling off ethanol, adding toluene (300 ml), washing the resulting organic layer with an alkali and then with water and distilling it under reduced pressure to obtain (R)-1-benzyloxy-2-propanol (b.p. 105°-107° C./5 mmHg) (28 g).

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