Acetic Acid → HCID 11645672, compound

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Sodium triacetoxyborohydride (131 mg, 0.62 mmol) was added to a solution of 4-[4-(2-Methylamino-ethyl)-phenoxy]-phenol (75 mg, 0.31 mmol), benzaldehyde (34 mg, 0.32 mmol), acetic acid (19 mg, 0.32 mmol), and 1,2-dichloroethane (5 mL). Stirred the reaction at room temperature overnight, quenched with a pH=10 buffer, then extracted with dichloromethane (3×25 mL). The combined dichloromethane extracts were dried over sodium chloride/magnesium sulfate, filtered, and concentrated on a rotary evaporator to yield the crude product (100 mg). The crude product is purified by flash column chromatography on silica gel eluting with ethanol in dichloromethane to yield 4-{4-[2-(benzyl-methyl-amino)-ethyl]-phenoxy}-phenol, (60 mg): m/z=334.01 (M+1); HPLC=97% (5/95 to 95/5 ACN/(0.1% TFA in water) over 10 minutes, Zorbax SB-Phenyl 4.6 mm×15 cm×5 micron, λ=254 nM. 1H NMR (CDCl3, 300.00 MHz): 7.42-7.28 (m, 7H), 7.11-7.05 (m, 2H), 6.97-6.79 (m, 4H), 3.63 (s, 2H), 2.86-2.78 (m, 2H), 2.71-2.63 (m, 2H), 2.33 (s, 3H),

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