Potassium Hydroxide → 3-(4-Piperidyl)-6-fluoro-1,2-benzisoxazole

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A suspension of 11 g of 4-(2,4-difluoro-benzoyl)piperidine-oxime hydrochloride and 25 g of potassium hydroxide in 25 ml of water is heated to boiling with stirring for 2 hours. The reaction mixture is cooled to room temperature and extracted with toluene. The organic phase is dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate and evaporated in vacuo. The residual crude product is recrystallized from petroleum ether. Thus 7.1 g of the title compound are obtained. According to HPLC MS analysis the product contains 5% of 4-{6-[4′-(6′-fluoro-1′,2′-benzisoxazol-3′-yl)-piperidine-1′-yl]-1,2-benzisoxazol-3-yl}-piperidine, as a contamination (compound of the Formula VI).

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