Acetic Acid → HCID 86626026, compound

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Trifluoro-methanesulfonic acid 3-propylamino-chroman-7-yl ester (1.62 g, 4.78 mmol) and benzaldehyde (975 μl, 9.56 mmol) were dissolved in dichloromethane (60 ml). Acetic acid (710 μl, 12.37 mmol) and sodium trisacetoxyborohydride (3.04 g, 14.34 mmol) were sequentially added to the reaction mixture and stirred over the weekend at room temperature. Dichloromethane and water were added to the reaction mixture. The aqueous phase was adjusted to a pH=6 with a 1 molar solution of NaOH. The organic phase was separated, dried over magnesium sulfate, filtered, and evaporated to dryness to yield the crude product. The crude product was purified by chromatography on silica gel using cyclohexane/ethyl acetate (100:0 to 95:5) as eluent, yielding the purified product (1.24 g, 50% purity, 30% yield).

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