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Compounds with the structural element -CH2NR2 are easily accessible from (phenylthiomethyl)amines by reductive CS bond cleavage and subsequent addition or substitution (see below). One advantage of this shorter method than tin–lithium exchange is the ready availability of the starting materials, which need not be purified by chromatography.
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Strohmann et al. (1996) studied this question.
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