Water → 1-Phenyl-2,5,8,11,14-pentaoxahexadecan-16-ol

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To Compound 1 (5.2 g, 21.8 mmol), potassium hydroxide (1.2 g, 21.4 mmol) was added; this was followed by stirring on an oil bath at 130° C. for 15 minutes, after which the oil bath was removed and benzyl chloride (2.7 g, 21.3 mmol) was gradually added. This was again heated to 130° C. and stirred for 2 hours. After the solution was allowed to cool to room temperature, water was poured to stop the reaction, and extraction from methylene chloride was conducted. The combined organic phases were dried with sodium sulfate, filtered, and concentrated under reduced pressure, after which the residue obtained was purified by silica gel column chromatography (Yamazen YFLC Gel, eluent (ethyl acetate—5% methanol-ethyl acetate solution) to yield Compound 19 (light-yellow oil 2.3 g, 32%).

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