Cyclohexanone → HCID 59602263, compound

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With stirring under nitrogen atmosphere at room temperature, a mixture of 100 g of spiro[4.5]decan-6-one (which had been synthesized from cyclohexanone by a method as described in A. P. Krapcho, Synthesis, 1974, p 383 and references cited therein) and 200 ml of tetrahydrofuran was added dropwise to a tetrahydrofuran solution of 1.28 mol methylmagnesium chloride (which had been prepared from 31.1 g of metallic magnesium, 400 ml of tetrahydrofuran and chloromethane), during which time the temperature was kept below 60° C. The reaction mixture was refluxed for 30 minutes, after which a saturated ammonium chloride aqueous solution was added to stop the reaction. Through ordinary work-up of extraction, washing and drying, and subsequent vacuum distillation, there was obtained 93.3 g (yield 87%) of the target compound, 6-methylspiro[4.5]decan-6-ol.

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