Methanol → HCID 178495619, compound

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Slices of metal Na (17.4 g, 0.755 mol) were added in small portions to methyl alcohol (250 ml) agitated at room temperature to prepare sodium methoxide. After metal Na pieces disappeared, a solution obtained by dissolving the compound (IV) (200.0 g, 0.581 mol) obtained above, in dry toluene (600 ml), was gradually added through a dropping funnel so that the inner temperature could keep within a range of 50° to 60° C. After completion of the addition, the mixture was refluxed for 4 hours, followed by cooling, adding water (20 ml), transferring into a separating funnel, washing the resulting toluene layer with water until the aqueous layer became neutral, distilling off toluene under reduced pressure, distilling under reduced pressure and collecting fractions of boiling points of 105°~108° C./1.5 mmHg to obtain trans-4-methyloxymethyl-1-phenylcyclohexane (V) (100.0 g).

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