2: 100 percent / H2 / platinum (10percent) on carbon / ethyl acetate / 8.5 h / Ambient temperature 3: 95 percent / toluene-p-sulphonic acid / acetone; H2O / 3 h / Heating 4: 100 percent / pyridine / 48 h 5: BH3-THF / tetrahydrofuran / 0 deg C, 10 min, RT, 6 h 6: 88 percent / 5percent KOH / methanol / 48 h / Ambient temperature 7: 65 percent / pyridinium dichromate / CH2Cl2 / 60 h 8: 20 mg / K2CO3, hydrazine hydrate 85percent, triethylene glycol / 150 deg C, 1 h, 220 deg C, 5.5 h View Scheme