Ethyl Acetate → 4-Bromo-4',4''-dimethoxytriphenylamine

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N,N-bis(4-methoxyphenyl)aniline 1 (9.0 g, 29.5 mmol) was dissolved in 100 mL dimethylformamide in a 250 mL round bottom flask. N-bromosuccinimide (5.25 g, 29.5 mmol) was dissolved in 30 mL dimethylformamide and added dropwise to the reaction mixture. The reaction was allowed to stir at room temperature while being monitored by thin layer chromatography (TLC) (Reaction Time=23 h). The reaction mixture was quenched using 600 mL water and extracted with 4×150 mL dichloromethane. The organic layers were combined and washed with 4×150 mL saturated sodium thiosulfate solution and dried over sodium sulfate. The solvent was removed under reduced pressure. The product was purified along with materials prepared previously using flash chromatography on silica gel eluting with 5:1 hexanes:ethylacetate (12.1 g, 100%). 1H NMR (300 MHz, CDCl3) δ 7.28 (d, J=9.0 Hz, 2H), 7.05 (d, J=9.0 Hz, 4H), 6.90 (d, J=9.0 Hz, 4H), 6.73 (d, J=9.0 Hz, 2H), 3.77 (s, 6H).

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