Aluminium lithium hydride → beta-Methylbenzenepropanamine

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A mixture of commercially available 2-methyl-3-phenylpropylamide (4.32 g, 26.5 mmol) and lithium aluminium hydride (1.3 g, 34.3 mmol) in tetrahydrofuran (184 ml) was stirred at room temperature for 5 h. It was poured into aqu. sat. sodium sulfate and extracted with dichloromethane followed by drying of the organic solution and evaporation to provide the amine as an oil. Other syntheses have been reported, e.g. Dornow and Fust, Chem. Ber. 87, 984 (1954).

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