Acetic Acid → Ethyl 6-(1-benzyloxycarbonyl-4-piperidyl)-2-hydroxyhexanoate

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In 40 ml of ethanol is dissolved 26 g of ethyl 6-(1-benzyloxycarbonyl-4-piperidyl)-2-oxohexanoate, and 6.2 g of acetic acid is added to the solution. Sodium cyanoborohydride (4.4 g) is added to the mixture under ice-cooling, and the mixture is stirred for 1 hour and allowed to stand at room temperature overnight. Water (500 ml) is added to the reaction solution, followed by extraction with methylene chloride. The extract is dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate and concentrated under reduced pressure. The resulting brown viscous material is purified by silica-gel column chromatography (hexane:ethyl acetate=2:1) to give 16 g of ethyl 6-(1-benzyloxycarbonyl-4-piperidyl)-2-hydroxyhexanoate as a colorless oily material.

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