Water → HCID 18620104, compound

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To a stirred suspension of methyltriphenylphosphonium bromide (4.1 g) in tetrahydrofuran (40 ml) was added 1.56M n-butyl lithium solution in hexane (7.2 ml) at room temperature, and the mixture was stirred for 1 hour. After the reaction mixture was cooled to −70° C., a solution of methyl 2-benzyloxy-5-formylbenzoate (2.82 g) in tetrahydrofuran (40 ml) was added, and the resulting mixture was stirred for 15 hours with gradually warming up to room temperature. To the reaction mixture was added water, and the resulting mixture was extracted with ethyl acetate. The extract was washed with brine and dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate. After the solvent was removed under reduced pressure, purification of the residue by flash column chromatography on silica gel (eluent: hexane/ethyl acetate=4/1) gave methyl 2-benzyloxy-5-vinylbenzoate (2.63 g).

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