Water → Ramelteon

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Propionyl chloride (2.57 g, 27.8 mmol.) was gradually added dropwise, under ice-cooling, to a solution of (S)-2-(1,6,7,8-tetrahydro-2H-indeno[5,4-b]furan-8-yl) ethylamine hydrochloride (5.55 g, 23.1 mmol.) and triethylamine (4.7 g, 46.3 mmol.) in N,N-dimethylformamide (100 ml). The mixture was stirred for one hour at room temperature, which was then poured into water, followed by extracting the organic matter with ethyl acetate. The extract solution was washed with a saturated aqueous saline solution and water, which was then dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate, followed by distilling off the solvent under reduced pressure. The residue was purified by means of silica gel column chromatography (ethyl acetate:methanol=98:2) to afford the title compound (yield 5.25 g, 88%).

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