Abstract A preparative method was developed for the synthesis of ethyl furfurylidenecyanoacetate. Its condensation with phenylmagnesium bromide gave ethyl α- cyano-β-(2-furyl) hydrocinnamate, the decarboxylation of which led to β-(2-furyl) hydrocinnamonitrile. Reduction of this nitrile with lithium aluminum hydride gave 2-(3-amino- 1-phenylpropyl) furan. Some of its transformations were studied.
