Water → HCID 13765567, compound

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Bromodiphenylmethane, 20.7 g (0.084 mol), was added portionwise at 25° to a stirred solution of 0.093 mole of tris(dimethylamino)sulfonium trifluoromethoxide (prepared as in Example 1) in 75 mL of acetonitrile. The reaction mixture was stirred for 18 h and then poured into water. The aqueous mixture was extracted with ether, and the ether extracts were washed with water, dried (MgSO4), and then distilled to give 8.34 g of trifluoromethyl diphenylmethyl ether as a colorless oil: bp 83.3° (0.7 mm); 1H NMR (CDCl3) δ6.17 ppm (s, 1H), 7.27 ppm (m, 10H); 19F NMR (CDCl3) δ-58.4 ppm (s). Anal. Calcd. for C14H11F3O: C, 66.66; H, 4.40; F, 22.60. Found: C, 66.82; H, 4.57; F, 22.39.

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