Diethyl Ether → HCID 178419089, Verbindung

Inside of a 100 ml volume glass three-neck flask equipped with a 50 mol volume glass dropping funnel, temperature resistor and septum rubber was sufficiently replaced with nitrogen. Into the flask, 5 g (29.8 mmol) of pentafluorobenzene and 30 ml of diethyl ether were charged, of which solution was cooled to -65° C. Thereafter, 14.2 g (34.3 mmol) of 15.5 wt. % hexane solution of sec-butyllithium charged into the dropping funnel were added dropwise while making the inner temperature not to exceed -55° C. After the completion of dropwise addition, the reaction mixture was kept at a temperature of -65°~-55° C. with stirring to give pentafluorophenyllithium. The yield of pentafluorobenzoic acid obtained by blowing of carbon dioxide into the prepared solution of pentafluorophenyllithium was 96.8% by means of gas chromatographic quantitative determination.