2-Phenylethanol → HCID 13231993, compound

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A procedure similar to that described in Preparation 46 was repeated, except that 4.28 g of 2-phenylethanol, 1.68 g of sodium hydride (as a 55% by weight dispersion in mineral oil), 4.1 ml of epibromohydrin and 100 ml of anhydrous dimethylformamide were used. The resulting crude product was purified by silica gel column chromatography, using a 8:1 by volume mixture of hexane and ethyl acetate as the eluent, to give 4.68 g of the title compound as a colorless oil having an Rf value of 0.77 (on silica gel thin layer chromatography, using a 2:1 by volume mixture of hexane and ethyl acetate as the developing solvent).

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