Dimethylformamide → 1-Isopropyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-quinoline-6-carbaldehyde

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18.6 g (0.12 mol) of phosphorus oxychloride was dropped into 29.2 g (0.4 mol) of N,N-dimethylformamide under cooling with ice. The obtained mixture was stirred at room temperature for 30 minutes and cooled again on an ice bath. 17.5 g (0.1 mol) of 1-(1-methylethyl)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline was gradually dropped into the resulting mixture. The mixture thus obtained was stirred at room temperature for one hour and poured onto ice-water. The resulting mixture was neutralized with an aqueous solution of sodium hydrogencarbonate and extracted with ethyl acetate. The organic phase was dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate and concentrated in a vacuum. The residue was purified by silica gel column chromatography (10% ethyl acetate/n-hexane) to give 11.4 g of the title compound as a reddish-brown oil.

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