Ammonium Acetate → 1-Benzyl-3,3-diMethyl-piperidin-4-aMine

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Ammonium acetate (3.5 g, 45.45 mmol) was added to the stirred solution of 1-benzyl-3,3-dimethyl-4-piperidone (2.0 g, 9.2 mmol), in methanol (20 ml) and stirring was continued for 3 hr at ambient temperature. The resulting mixture was cooled at 0° C. and sodium cyanoborohydride (0.58 g, 9.2 mmol) was added. Cooling was removed after 10 min. and resulting mixture was stirred for 6 hr at ambient temperature. The reaction mixture was concentrated to dryness, triturated with water, acidified with conc. HCl (pH 3˜4) and extracted with ethyl acetate to remove impurities. The aqueous layer was basified with 1 M sodium hydroxide solution (pH˜10) and extracted with ethyl acetate. Ethyl acetate extract was dried (Na2SO4) and concentrated to dryness to furnish 4-amino-1-benzyl-3,3-dimethyl piperidine. Yield 1.6 g (77%), C14H22N2, m/z 219 (M+1), PMR (CDCl3): 0.84 (s, 3H), 0.98 (s, 3H), 1.48 (bs, 2H, D2O exchangeable), 1.66 (m, 2H), 2.04 (m, 2H), 2.42 (m, 2H), 2.86 (m, 1H), 3.46 (dd, 2H), 7.32 (m, 5H).

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