Aluminium lithium hydride → (2s)-2-(Biphenyl-4-yloxy)propan-1-ol

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Prepared according to the method described in Example 1b) from lithium aluminium hydride (41.9 ml, 1.0M solution in ether) and solution (2S)-2-(biphenyl-4-yloxy)propanoic acid, ethyl ester (11.3 g, Example 2a)) in dry tetrahydrofuran (200 ml) at 0° C. The sub-title compound obtained after work-up was used directly without further purification (9.52 g).

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