Aluminium lithium hydride → HCID 84617616, compound

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A solution (15 mL) of methyl 1-(3,5-dimethoxyphenyl)-3-methyl-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxylate (3.0 g) synthesized in the above-mentioned (1) in tetrahydrofuran was added to an ice-cooled solution (35 mL) of lithium aluminum hydride (0.42 g) in tetrahydrofuran. The ice bath was removed, and the reaction mixture was stirred at room temperature for 1 hr, ice-cooled again, and water (1.1 mL), 1N aqueous sodium hydroxide solution (5.5 mL), water (1.1 mL) were successively added dropwise to quench the reaction. The residue was filtered through celite, and the filtrate was concentrated under reduced pressure to give a crude product (2.7 g) of 1-(3,5-dimethoxyphenyl)-3-methyl-1H-pyrazole-4-methanol as a pale-yellow oil. This was dissolved in toluene (30 mL), manganese dioxide (2.0 g) was added, and the mixture was heated under reflux with a Dean-Stark trap for 1 hr. The reaction mixture was allowed to cool to room temperature, manganese dioxide was collected by filtration, and the solvent was evaporated under reduced pressure to give the title object compound (2.0 g, 74%) as a yellow solid.

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