Ammonium Chloride → HCID 15728750, compound

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To a stirred solution of the 2-[(2-fluorophenyl)(1-(ethoxy)ethoxy)methyl]-3-thiophenecarboxaldehyde and tetrahydrofuran (400 ml), cooled to -78° C. under nitrogen, was added, via syringe, N-methyl-4-piperidinylmagnesium chloride over 1.5 hrs. (the Grignard reagent was prepared from N-methyl-4-chloropiperidine (29.4 g) according to the procedure of J. T. Strupczewski, et al., et al., J. Med. Chem., 28, 761 (1985), followed by dilution with tetrahydrofuran (45 ml)). The solution was allowed to warm slowly to -20° C. over 2.5 hrs, and dilute aqueous ammonium chloride solution and ether were added. The layers were separated and the organic layer washed with water. The combined aqueous layers were back-extracted with ether, and the combined organic layers washed with brine, dried over anhydrous potassium carbonate, filtered, and concentrated. The residue was purified by flash column chromatography (silica gel, 0-45% methanol/dichloromethane) to afford 6.4 g (20% overall) of α-[2-[2-fluorophenyl(1-(ethoxy)ethoxy)methyl]-3-thienyl]-1-methyl-4-piperidinemethanol.

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