Sodium Hydroxide → Benzo(b)thiophene-3-ethylamine, hydrochloride

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To a slurry of lithium aluminium hydride (0.6 g, 15.16 mmol) in ether (25 mL) was added, under N2, a slurry of aluminium chloride (2.1 g, 15.1 mmol) in dry ether. After 5 min, a solution of 1-benzothien-3-ylacetonitrile (2.5, 14.4 mmol) in ether (25 mL) was slowly added over 10 min. Upon completion of the addition, the resulting reaction mixture was refluxed for 18 h, cooled and neutralized with 6N NaOH and extracted with ethyl acetate (2×50 mL). The combined organic extracts were dried over anhydrous Na2SO4, filtered and concentrated under reduced pressure to yield a syrup. 2-(1-Benzothien-3-yl)ethanamine hydrochloride was obtained by treating the syrup with a solution of methanolic HCl (1.5 g, 50%); 1H NMR (200 MHz, CDCl3): δ 1.43 (s, 2H), 3.00 (m, 4H), 7.11 (s, 1H), 7.36 (m, 2H), 7.72-7.86 (m, 2H).

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