Acetic Acid → HCID 9956432, compound

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Acetic acid (0.448 ml) was added to a solution of 4-dimethylamino-4-pyridin-2-yl cyclohexanone (873 mg) and tryptamine (640 mg) in dry tetrahydrofuran (40 ml) and anhydrous 1,2-dichloroethane (10 ml) and stirred for 15 min. Following addition of sodium triacetoxyboron hydride (1.2 g) the reaction mixture was stirred for three days under argon at room temperature. To recover the product the solvent was removed in vacuo, the residue taken up in 1N sodium hydroxide solution (40 ml) and diethyl ether (40 ml), the phases separated, the aqueous phase extracted with diethyl ether (2×30 ml), the organic phases combined, dried and concentrated to low volume. The resulting raw product was separated by column chromatography on silica gel with methanol and methanol/ammonia (100:1). The non-polar diastereoisomer of N′-[2-(1H-indol-3-yl)ethyl]-N,N-dimethyl-1-pyridin-2-yl cyclohexane-1,4-diamine was obtained as a white solid (617 mg; mp 150–152° C.).

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