Ammonium Chloride → (5S)-2-[6-(2,5-dimethyl-1H-pyrrol-1-yl)pyridin-3-yl]-4-propyl-5-methylmorpholin-2-ol

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5-bromo-2-(2,5-dimethyl-pyrrol-1-yl)-pyridine (1.5 g 5.9 mmol) was azeotroped with toluene and dissolved in THF (20 ml). This mixture was cooled to −78 C and t-butyllithium (1.7M in pentane, 7 ml, 11.9 mmol) was added maintaining the temperature below −70 C. The material from example 62 was dissolved in THF (20 ml) and added to the mixture immediately on completion of the t-butyllithium addition. The mixture was allowed to stir at −78° C. for 30 minutes at which time NH4Cl (10% aq, 150 ml) was added and the mixture extracted into EtOAc (200 ml), dried with magnesium sulphate, filtered and evaporated. Flash chromatography on SiO2 eluting with a stepped gradient from 25% EtOAc/pentane to 50% EtOAc/pentane gave the title compound as mixture of diastereoisomers in approximately 3.5:1 ratio as a yellow oil (480 mg).

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