Sodium Chloride → HCID 70620416, compound

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18.5 g. 9-hydroxy-9-cyanomethyl-thiaxanthene (0.07 mol) are substantially dissolved in 150 ml. ether and slowly added dropwise, with stirring and external cooling, to a suspension of 3.8 g. lithium aluminum hydride (0.1 mol) in 50 ml. ether. The reaction mixture is subsequently vigorously stirred for 2 hours at room temperature and carefully decomposed by the addition of saturated, aqueous sodium chloride solution. The precipitated precipitates of the metal hydroxides agglomerate and, in this form, can be filtered off with suction. The filter cake is thoroughly washed through with ether and from the combined ethereal filtrates one obtains, after drying with potassium carbonate, 9-hydroxy-9-(2-aminoethyl)-thiaxanthene in the form of the hydrochloride by the dropwise addition of ethereal hydrochloric acid. The yield amounts to 17.0 g. (82% of theory) of m.p. 180°. After recrystallisation from isopropanol, the yield drops to 12.5 g. (61% of theory); the melting point thereby increases to 188°.

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