Sodium borohydride → HCID 20214933, compound

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A mixture of 14.4 gm of 2'-benzyloxy-5'-(1-oxo-2-hydroxy-2-ethoxy-ethyl)-methanesulfonanilide, 7 gm of 1-(3-amino-3-methylbutyl)-benzimidazole and 150 ml of alcohol was heated for 3 hours at 50° C. and then admixed in portions with 9.2 gm of sodium borohydride. The resulting solution is kept for 12 hours at room temperature, the alcohol is then removed under reduced pressure on a Rotavapor, and the residue is dissolved with 200 ml of water and 500 ml of ethyl acetate. After decomposition of the sodium borohydride by stirring with concentrated hydrochloric acid and ice cooling, the mixture was made alkaline with aqueous ammonia, and the ethyl acetate phase was separated, dried with sodium sulfate and evaporated on a Rotavapor. The residue was dissolved in 200 ml of alcohol, the solution was acidified with 6.3 gm of oxalic acid, and the precipitated 2'-benzyloxy-5'-[1-hydroxy-2-[4-(1-benzimiazolyl)-2-methyl-2-butylamino]-ethyl]methane sulfonanilide dioxalate (m.p. 185°-187° C.) is extracted. The base (m.p. 65°-70° C.) was liberated from this compound with aqueous ammonia. Catalytic hydrogenation of this compound (m.p. 65°-70° C.) in 250 ml of methanol under standard conditions with palladium charcoal as a catalyst yielded 8 gm of 2'-hydrox-5'-[1-hydroxy-2-[4-(1-benzimidazolyl)-2-methyl-2-butylamino]-ethyl]-methanesulfonanilide (m.p. 170°-173° C.; 81% of theory) whose formates of the formula ##STR34## had a melting point of 161°-164° C.

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