Potassium Phosphate, Tribasic → 3,3'-Bicarbazole

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A mixture solution of 3-bromo-9H-carbazole (6.75 g, 27.4 mmol), 9-phenyl-3-(4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-1,3,2-dioxaborolan-2-yl)-9H-carbazole (12.15 g, 32.9 mmol), Pd2(dba)3 (0.251 g, 0.274 mmol), SPhos (0.450 g, 1.097 mmol) and K3PO4 (25.3 g, 110 mmol) in toluene (500 mL) and water (50 mL) was refluxed under nitrogen for 10 h. After cooling to room temperature, the reaction mixture was extracted with dichloromethane and washed with brine. The combined organic solutions were dried over Na2SO4, filtered, and the solvent was evaporated to yield a crude product, which was recrystallized from DCM/hexane (1/1, v/v, 1200 mL) to yield 9H,9′H-3,3′-bicarbazole (6.66 g, 59%) as a yellow solid.

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