Aluminium lithium hydride → HCID 12094380, compound

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Under argon atmosphere, 65 mg of 5-acetoxy-6-t-butyl-2,2,4-trimethyl-2,3-dihydrobenzofuran was dissolved in 1.5 ml of anhydrous tetrahydrofuran, a solution of 22 mg of lithium aluminium hydride in 1 ml of anhydrous tetrahydrofuran was added, and the mixture was stirred at room temperature for a whole day and night. After cooling to 0° C, the reaction was quenched with water and then the reaction solution was combined with 10% hydrochloric acid and extracted with ethyl acetate. The organic layers were washed with a saturated aqueous sodium bicarbonate solution and saturated brine, dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate, and then concentrated. The concentrate was recrystallized from hexane to give 25 mg of 6-t-butyl-5-hydroxy-2,2,4-trimethyl-2,3-dihydrobenzofuran as a white solid (yield 45%).

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