Bromide ion → HCID 67513632, compound

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Reaction Steps

Potassium hexamethyldisilazide (0.5 M in THF) (46.1 mL, 23.07 mmol) was added dropwise to a stirred suspension of methyltriphenylphosphohonium bromide (8.24 g, 23.1 mmol) in dry THF (62 mL) at 0° C. and the mixture was stirred for 20 min. A solution of 4-ethyl-3-iodobenzaldehyde (2.40 g, 9.23 mmol) in dry THF (31 mL) was added via cannula. The reaction mixture was allowed to warm to room temperature and stirred overnight. The reaction was quenched with satd NH4Cl (50 mL) and the resulting mixture was extracted with EtOAc (3×50 mL). The combined extracts were dried (MgSO4) and concentrated in vacuo to give the crude product. This was purified by flash chromatography (Biotage Horizon, 40M, Si, ˜30 mL/min, 100% hexanes for 2448 mL) to afford 4-ethenyl-1-ethyl-2-iodobenzene, as a colorless oil. Rf=0.79 (hexanes). 1H NMR (500 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.37 (d, J=1.8 Hz, 1H); 6.83 (dd, J=7.9, 1.8 Hz, 1H); 6.68 (d, J=7.9 Hz, 1H); 6.11 (dd, J=17.6, 10.9 Hz, 1H); 5.21 (d, J=17.6 Hz, 1H); 4.72 (d, J=9.7 Hz, 1H); 2.23 (q, J=7.5 Hz, 2H); 0.72 (t, J=7.5 Hz, 3H).

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