Water → HCID 18645449, compound

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Reaction Steps

THF (200 ml) was added to LiAlH4 (16.8 g), followed by agitating the mixture under ice cooling, dropwise adding thereto a solution of (R)-methyl 2-butoxypropionate (54 g) in THF (150 ml), agitating the mixture at room temperature for 3 hours, again cooling it with ice, adding water, extracting with heptane (300 ml) water-washing, concentrating and distilling the resulting concentrate under reduced pressure to obtain (R)-2-butoxy-1-propanol (29.3 g).

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