Water → HCID 19803750, compound

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Reaction Steps

4.4 g (0.0157 mol) of N-[2-(3,4-dimethoxy-phenyl)-ethyl]-3(hydroxymethyl)-piperidine are dissolved in 70 ml of carbon tetrachloride and cooled to 0° C. Then 1.63 ml (0.0173 mol) of phosphorus tribromide is added, whereupon a bulky precipitate is immediately formed. The mixture is stirred for 15 hours at ambient temperature, water is added and the mixture is neutralized with 2 molar sodium hydroxide solution. The organic phase is separated off, washed with water, dried over magnesium sulphate, concentrated by evaporation in vacuo and purified over 310 g of aluminium oxide (neutral, activity II-III) with methylene chloride and then with increasing amounts of ethanol (up to 5%). Yield: 2.0 g (37.2% of theory), Rf value: 0.5 (aluminium oxide neutral, eluant: 2% ethanol in methylene chloride).

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