Water → HCID 22813385, compound

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To a stirred slurry of lithium aluminum hydride (3.0 gms) in tetrahydrofuran (200 ml) is added trans-4-(p-tolylsulphonyl)-4,6,6a,8,9,10a hexahydro-7H-indolo-[3,4-gh]-[1,4]-benzoxazin-8-one (3.0 gms) in portions over 5 minutes. The resulting mixture is refluxed for 17 hours. The cooled slurry is hydrolyzed with water (6 ml), and the organic phase is separated from the solid inorganics by filtration. The solid is rinsed with ether (3×100 ml). The organic solvents are dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate. After filtration, the solvents are removed under reduced pressure (20 mm). The resulting oil is purified by column chromatography silica; CHCl3 (sat. with NH4OH) to yield 700 mg of trans 4,6,6a,8,9,10a-Hexahydro-7H-indolo-[3,4 gh]-[1,4]-benzoxazine; which after recrystalization from methanol gives 540 mg (25%) m.p. 175°-177° C. with previous softening.

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