Benzene, 1-bromo-3-(trifluoromethyl)- → Trimethyl[3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]stannane

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To 20.0 g (88.9 mmol) of meta-bromobenzotrifluoride stirring in 200 ml of tetrahydrofuran at 78° C., 61.2 ml of 1.6M n-butyl lithium (97.9 mmol) in hexane was added dropwise. After stirring the reaction 10 minutes at -78° C., 19.5 g (97.8 mmol) of trimethyltin chloride dissolved in 30 ml of tetrahydrofuran was added dropwise and the mixture stirred for 10 minutes at -78° C. before allowing to warm to room temperature. The reaction mixture was quenched with excess saturated sodium bicarbonate and extracted with ethyl acetate (300 ml). The extract was washed with saturated sodium bicarbonate and brine, dried over magnesium sulfate, and evaporated in vacuo to give a crude yield of 20.2 g of the above product, isolated as a oily semi-solid. This aryl stannane was used directly as a crude material in the coupling reactions with heterocycles of Formula II.

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