Water → 6-Bromo-1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalen-1-amine

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6-Bromo-3,4-dihydro-2H-naphthalen-1-one (9.5 g, 42.2 mmol) was suspended in 2-propanol (250 ml); then, NaBH3 CN (13.3 g, 211 mmol) was added, followed by ammonium acetate (65.1 g, 844 mmol). The reaction mixture was then stirred at RT for 4 hours. It was subsequently heated up to reflux and stirring was continued for 22 hours. The reaction mixture was then cooled down to RT and poured into cold H2O (500 ml); the pH was adjusted to >10 with sodium hydroxide solution and the mixture was extracted with CH2Cl2 (2×25 ml). The organic layers were dried over MgSO4, filtered and concentrated in vacuo to give a crude product (9.842 g) which was purified by flash chromatography (silica gel, 100 g, 2% to 10% MeOH in CH2Cl2) to yield the title compound (8.08 g, 85%) as light red oil. MS: 226.0 (MH+, 1Br).

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