Potassium tert-butoxide → 4-Benzyloxy-2-[2-(4-methoxyphenyl)allyloxy]-1-vinylbenzene

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A suspension of MTPPB (2.29 g, 6.41 mmol) in anhydrous THF (20 mL) was cooled in an ice bath and added with t-BuOK (0.72 g, 6.42 mmol) in portions under nitrogen. After stirring at 0° C. for 15 min, the suspension was added with compound 2a (2.0 g, 5.34 mmol) as obtained above. The resultant mixture was stirred at 0° C. for 2 hrs, followed by quenching with a saturated NH4Cl solution. After removal of most of the THF in vacuo, the resultant residue was extracted six times with EtOAc (20 mL). The organic layers were combined, washed with a saturated NaCl solution, and dried with anhydrous MgSO4. After filtration, the filtrate was concentrated in vacuo, followed by purification via silica gel column chromatography (ethyl acetate/n-hexane=1:15), thus giving the title compound 2 as a colorless liquid (1.89 g, 95% yield).

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