Ammonium Chloride → HCID 66803709, compound

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Tert-butyl[(1R,5S,6S)-6-(nitromethyl)bicyclo[3.2.0]hept-3-en-6-yl]acetate (peak 2, 20.7 g, 77.4 mmol) was dissolved in ethanol (200 mL) and water (100 mL). To the solution, iron powder (34.69 g, 619.5 mmol) and ammonium chloride (2.09 g, 38.72 mmol) were added, and the mixture was stirred for 6.5 hours under heating to reflux. The mixture was allowed to cool, then diluted with saturated saline, a saturated aqueous solution of sodium bicarbonate, and ethyl acetate, and filtered through Celite to remove insoluble matter. The filtrate was separated into organic and aqueous layers. The organic layer was washed with saturated saline and then dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate. Then, the solvent was distilled off under reduced pressure to obtain a mixture of the compound of interest and the starting material at almost 1:1 ratio (20.18 g, estimated by 1H-NMR). This mixture was dissolved again in ethanol (200 mL) and water (100 mL). To the solution, iron powder (40.36 g, 720.7 mmol) and ammonium chloride (4.18 g, 78.1 mmol) were added, and the mixture was stirred for 9 hours under heating to reflux while iron powder (32.73 g, 584.5 mmol) was further added thereto in three portions. The mixture was allowed to cool, then diluted with saturated saline, a saturated aqueous solution of sodium bicarbonate, and ethyl acetate, and filtered through Celite to remove insoluble matter. The filtrate was separated into organic and aqueous layers. The organic layer was washed with saturated saline and then dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate. Then, the solvent was distilled off under reduced pressure to obtain the compound of interest as a pale yellow oil substance (17.53 g, 95%).

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