100 mg of 4-(2-phenyl-chroman-6-yloxy)-cyclohexanone were dissolved at room temperature in 5 ml of tetrahydrofuran. A 2M solution of propylmagnesium chloride in diethyl ether (0.31 ml, 2 eq) was added, and stirring at room temperature was continued for 4 h. The reaction was stopped by careful addition of saturated aqueous ammonium chloride solution. The aqueous layer was extracted with methyl tert-butyl ether. The organic layer was dried over sodium sulfate and filtered, and the solvent removed by evaporation. The resulting oil was chromatographed over silica gel using heptane/ethyl acetate 20:1 as the eluent. 54 mg of the title compound were isolated as a pale yellow oil (48%).
