Water → Emakalim

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Reaction Steps

1 g of 6-cyano-2,2-dimethyl-3,4-epoxychromane is refluxed for 40 hours with 1 g of 2-hydroxypyridine in 10 ml of dioxane, in the presence of 0.20 ml of a methanolic solution containing 35% of benzyltrimethylammonium hydroxide. The mixture is taken up with 30 ml of water and the precipitate obtained is filtered off, washed with isopropyl ether and then recrystallized from 20 ml of absolute ethyl alcohol to give 0.9 g of the expected product.

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