Water → HCID 13371463, compound

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To a stirred suspension of 10 g of lithium aluminum hydride in 1 in liter dry ether under nitrogen was added over a period of one hour a solution of 35 g of 2-(4-benzyloxyphenylamino)-5-methoxybenzoic acid in 300 ml of tetrahydrofuran. The mixture was heated at reflux for three hours, then cooled, and water (20 ml) was slowly added. The solid material was removed by filtration and the filtrate concentrated in vacuo. The residue was crystallized and recrystallized from a benzene-cyclohexane-hexane mixture to yield 26 g of 2-(4-benzyloxyphenylamino)-5-methoxybenzenemethanol, light tan crystals, m.p. 100°-101° C.

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