Hexane → 1-Bromo-4-[4-(methoxymethylidene)cyclohexyl]benzene

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20.4 g of triphenyl-methoxymethyl-phosphonium chloride were suspended in 60 ml of t-butyl methyl ether while gassing with argon in a sulphonation flask having a thermometer, mechanical stirrer, dropping funnel and solid substance addition tube and treated at -10° C. within 10 minutes with 6.6 g of solid potassium t-butylate. After completion of the addition the mixture was stirred at -10° C. to 0° C. for 30 minutes, then the deep orange, heterogeneous reaction mixture was treated dropwise at 0° C. with a solution of 10 g of 4-(4-bromophenyl)cyclohexanone in 50 ml of absolute tetrahydrofuran, subsequently stirred at room temperature for 24 hours, poured into 500 ml of hexane and filtered. Low-pressure chromatography of the concentrated residue (13.9 g) on silica gel with hexane/ethyl acetate (vol. 9:1) gave 10.4 g of 1-bromo-4-[4-(methoxymethylidene)cyclohexyl]benzene as a colourless oil.

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