Carbon tetrabromide → 1,1'-Biphenyl, 4-(bromomethyl)-

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Carbon tetrabromide (8.99 g) and triphenylphosphine (7.11 g) were added to a stirred solution of biphenyl-4-yl-methanol (5.00 g) in dichloromethane (100 ml) at room temperature and stirred the reaction mixture for approximately 2 hours at the same temperature. The solvent was evaporated under reduced pressure and the residue thus obtained was purified by column chromatography using 5% diethylether in hexane as eluant to furnish the title compound (6.37 g).

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