Water → (1-Benzyl-pyrrolidin-3-ylmethyl)-ethyl-amine

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To a suspension of 108.6 g (2.86 mole) lithium aluminum hydride in 800 ml tetrahydrofuran, was added a solution of 194.5 g (0.79 mole) of N-ethyl-5-oxo-1-(phenylmethyl)-3-pyrrolidinecarboxamide in 600 ml tetrahydrofuran dropwise under nitrogen. The reaction was then refluxed four hours. The reaction flask was cooled in an ice bath and 108 ml of water, 108 ml of 15% sodium hydroxide, and 324 ml of water were added. The precipitated solids were filtered and washed with hot ethanol. The combined filtrates were concentrated, then dissolved in dichloromethane, filtered, dried over magnesium sulfate, and the solvent evaporated under reduced pressure to give 151.9 g of N-ethyl-1-(phenylmethyl)-3-pyrrolidinemethanamine as an oil.

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