“…10,11 Treatment of the crude aldehyde obtained in situ by hydrolysis (9:1 TFA-H 2 O, r.t., 1 h) of the dimethyl acetal 6, with diverse primary or secondary amines (1.4 mol equiv) in dry 1,2-dichloroethane, and subsequent reduction of the respective, not isolated, imine using sodium triacetoxyborohydride (1.4 mol equiv), afforded the respective compounds 7a-h in moderate to high yields (Scheme 2, Table 1). 12 Their deprotection with 1 M NaMeO-MeOH gave the corresponding products 8a-h. 13 As shown in Table 1, primary and secondary aliphatic amines (benzylamine, piperidine, benzyloxycarbonyl piperazine, and morpholine, entries 1-4), as well as the aromatic amine 4-hydroxymethyl aniline (entry 6), gave the corresponding reductive amination compounds 7a-e as the sole product.…”