Sodium borohydride → HCID 15595611, compound

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89 mmol of 8-methoxy-4-thiochromanone are dissolved in 70 ml of a mixture of methanol and tetrahydrofuran (3/4). 134 mmol of sodium borohydride dissolved in 50 ml of aqueous methanol (50%) are added. After stirring for 1 hour at room temperature and then extracting with methylene chloride, the resulting product is recrystallised from a mixture of methanol and diethyl ether (1/10).

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