Diethylamine → 1-(2,2-Diethoxyethyl)cyclohexane-1-carbonitrile

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51.7 ml (0.5 mol) of anhydrous diethylamine are added dropwise to 312.5 ml (0.5 mol) of a 15% solution of n-butyl-lithium in hexane at -10° C. under an inert gas blanket. The batch is stirred for 10 minutes and then cooled to -70° C. Within 30 minutes, 54.6 g of cyclohexane-carbonitrile are added dropwise, after a further 30 minutes 98.5 g of bromoacetaldehyde-diethylacetal are added within 1 hour, and the batch is maintained for 24 hours at low temperature. Subsequently, it is warmed to room temperature, given onto 100 g of ice, extracted twice with 500 ml of ethyl acetate, the organic phase is dried over sodium sulfate, concentrated in vacuo, and the residue is subjected to vacuum distillation.

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