Aluminium lithium hydride → 1,2,3,4-Tetrahydro-7-phenylmethoxy-4-methycyclopent[b]indole-2-methanol

HRID 2226931Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 2226931 reaction equation
C([O:3][C:4]([CH:6]1[CH2:26][C:9]2[N:10]([CH3:25])[C:11]3[CH:12]=[CH:13][C:14]([O:17][CH2:18][C:19]4[CH:24]=[CH:23][CH:22]=[CH:21][CH:20]=4)=[CH:15][C:16]=3[C:8]=2[CH2:7]1)=O)C.[H-].[Al+3].[Li+].[H-].[H-].[H-]>O1CCCC1>[C:19]1([CH2:18][O:17][C:14]2[CH:13]=[CH:12][C:11]3[N:10]([CH3:25])[C:9]4[CH2:26][CH:6]([CH2:4][OH:3])[CH2:7][C:8]=4[C:16]=3[CH:15]=2)[CH:20]=[CH:21][CH:22]=[CH:23][CH:24]=1

Participants

4

Conditions

Temperature
70 °C

Procedure

To a solution of 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-7-phenylmethoxy-4-methycyclopent[b]indole-2-carboxylic acid ethyl ester (2.0 g, 0.006 mole) in 50 ml of dry tetrahydrofuran, was added lithium aluminum hydride (1M solution in tetrahydrofuran, 10 ml, 0.01 mole). After stirring at 70° C. for one hour, the mixture was cooled, quenched with 2 ml of saturated ammonium chloride solution, filtered, and the filtrate concentrated to a brown oil, ~2 g. This oil was eluted on a silica gel column with 10% methanol/dichloromethane via HPLC. The desired fractions were combined and concentrated to a tan oil, which solidified on standing to give 1.3 g of the product, m.p. 83°-85° C.

Workup

  1. temperaturethe mixture was cooled
  2. customquenched with 2 ml of saturated ammonium chloride solution
  3. filtrationfiltered
  4. concentrationthe filtrate concentrated to a brown oil, ~2 g
  5. washThis oil was eluted on a silica gel column with 10% methanol/dichloromethane via HPLC
  6. concentrationconcentrated to a tan oil, which

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-ec0f9592505e45bdb33ea398a1dd417e
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1994_09
Patent number
US05350762

Reaction notes

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