Water → Trimethyl((2-nitrophenyl)ethynyl)silane

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4 g (20 mmol) of ortho-bromonitrobenzene, 842 mg (1.2 mmol) of bis(triphenyl-phosphine)palladium(II) chloride and 230 mg (1.2 mmol) of copper(I) iodide were, under argon, initially charged in 40 ml of triethylamine. At room temperature, 2.95 g (30 mmol) of trimethylsilylacetylene were then added dropwise over a period of 10 min, and the mixture was stirred at room temperature for 2 days. The reaction mixture was poured into 50 ml of water and extracted three times with in each case 50 ml of diethyl ether, and the extracts were dried over sodium sulphate and concentrated. Column-chromatographic purification on silica gel 60 (mobile phase: cyclohexane/ethyl acetate 3:1) gave 4.2 g (96% of theory) of trimethyl-(2-nitrophenyl-ethynyl)silane [log P (pH 2.3)=4.12].

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