Aluminium lithium hydride → (4R)-4-Hydroxy-1-methyl-2-[2-(2-phenylethyl)phenoxymethyl]pyrrolidine

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Following a procedure similar to that described in Example 38, 300 mg of (4R)-1-t-butoxycarbonyl-4-hydroxy-2-[2-(2-phenylethyl)phenoxymethyl]pyrrolidine [prepared as described in Example 65(b)] were reacted with 85.9 mg of lithium aluminum hydride dispersed in 30 ml of tetrahydrofuran. The mixture was then worked up as described in Example 38, and the crude product thus obtained was purified by column chromatography through silica gel, using a 10:1 by volume mixture of methylene chloride and methanol as the eluent, to give 150 mg (yield 63%) of the title compound as a colorless oil.

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