Acetic Acid → HCID 19967810, compound

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Acetic acid (0.5 ml) was added to Raney nickel (8 spoon-spatulas full) and after washing with THF the catalyst was added to the product of part (a) (16.6 g, 44.9 mmole) in THF (160 ml). The resulting mixture was shaken in an atmosphere of hydrogen at atmospheric pressure for 4 hours and then filtered, the catalyst washed with THF and the filtrate evaporated to give a solid (14.1 g). This material was chromatographed on a dry deactivated silica gel column eluting with 1% ethyl acetate in methylene chloride to give the partially hydrated product, m.p. 206°-207° C., 12.7 g (83%).

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