Ethyl formate → 3-(3-Methoxyphenyl)-1-methyl-5-phenylpiperidin-4-one

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A 54 g. portion of 1-(3-methoxyphenyl)-3-phenyl-2-propanone was reacted with ethyl formate and methylamine hydrochloride as described in Examples 1-3 to prepare 10 g. of 3-(3-methoxyphenyl)-1-methyl-5-phenyl-4(1H)-pyridinone, which was reduced with 2 g. of lithium aluminum hydride. The reaction mixture was worked up as in the examples above and chromatographed over a silica gel column. About 1.4 g. of a mixture of the compounds of Examples 24 and 25 was obtained, an oil which was identified by mass spectroscopy as having a molecular weight of 293. About 1.3 g. of the piperidinone of Example 26 was recovered, which had an indicated molecular weight of 295 by mass spectroscopy.

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