Phenylcyclohexylamines Via Reductive Amination ?

[Bwiti]

If I sound completely off-base, that's because I've never taken a college chemistry course. How can reductive amination be applied to the production of phenylcyclohexylamines? I'm thinking that an Al/Hg can be done on phenylcyclohexanone/methylamine, or some other amine, but how's phenylcyclohexanone made? How about doing the same with cyclohexanone/phenylamine?....Wouldn't the end-product need to be rearranged? How would one go about synthing a benzaldehyde-like phenylcyclohexyl compound that can be reductively aminated with methylamine and sodium triacetoxyborohydride, or Al/Hg?
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[Rhodium]

Phenylcyclohexylamines are tertiary amines, therefore you cannot make them through reductive amination, as that reaction implies that you have a carbonyl compund to which you reductively add an amine. A carbonyl (double-bonded oxygen) on that center carbon would somehow require it to have five bonds (one to the benzene ring, two to the cyclohexane, and two to an oxygen), which it can not have, only four.

[Bwiti]

Thanks! Well, that's one less thing that I'll be kicking around in my sick head, which will free up space for something useful.
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[PrimoPyro]

Im sure you know that 1-phenyl-cyclohexyl-1-amine can be reductively alkylated with acetaldehyde or formaldehyde, to PCE or (PCM?) respectively. I have no refs for this other than the illustrations on Rhodium's site, but it should work dandy in theory, as it is all very simple known chemistry.

The problem is acquiring the phenyl-cyclohexylamine. Type that in TFSE and answer my old questions will ya?  

                                                   PrimoPyro

[Bwiti]

http://gb.espacenet.com/

has a lot of crude methods for producing phenylcyclohexylamine..Of course, the azide route would be cool, but the universities in my area don't have the refs for it, so I gave up hope on that a long time ago.
  Beagle said something interesting a while back:

"Another interesting compound that I am unsure of is ACP, where allyl replaces phenyl. I thought that the original JMC paper (which I still haven't found) said that this was a dud, but there is animal data suggesting that it has 0.25 to 4.0x PCP's potency. Just replace allyl bromide for the bromobenzene and find out..."
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[foxy2]

In some cases you can reductively aminate an alcohol
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