4-Bromothioanisole → Bisphenyl-4-thioanisylphosphine

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A cooled solution of 4-bromothioanisole (10.2 g; 0.05 mol) and anhydrous tetrahydrofuran (50 ml) under nitrogen was treated dropwise with 2.5 M n-Butyllithium (19.92 ml; 0.05 mol) in tetrahydrofuran. The cooled mixture was then treated dropwise with a solution of chlorodiphenylphospine (10.0 g; 0.045 mol) and anhydrous tetrahydrofuran (10 ml). The resulting mixture was allowed to warm to room temperature and left to stir for 55 hours. The reaction was quenched with water (500 ml) and extracted with diethyl ether. The combined extracts were dried with magnesium sulphate, filtered and evaporated to dryness to give a yellow solid. Recrystallisation from butanol afforded bisphenyl-4-thioanisylphosphine (XI) as a white solid (3.26 g; 23%).

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