1-(Chlorosulfanyl)-2,3,4,5,6-pentafluorobenzene → HCID 12832379, compound

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Under agitation and using argon as the protective gas, 15 ml of about 1.6N n-butyllithium in hexane, diluted with 30 ml of toluene, is added dropwise at -5° to 0° to a solution of 8.83 g of 4,5-bis(4-methoxyphenyl)-1-(tetrahydropyran-2-yl)imidazole in a mixture of 75 ml of absolute tetrahydrofuran and 75 ml of toluene. After 20 minutes, the pentafluorophenylsulfenyl chloride solution is added dropwise to the reaction mixture, maintaining the temperature between -5° and 0° by cooling. After 2 hours' stirring at room temperature, the solution is diluted with 200 ml of ethyl acetate, washed with sodium bicarbonate solution; the organic solution is dried over sodium sulfate and concentrated to dryness under vacuum. The residue is purified by chromatography on aluminum oxide, neutral, activity stage II, with hexane/ethyl acetate. Recrystallization from ethyl acetate/hexane yields 8.86 g of 4,5-bis(4-methoxyphenyl)-1-(tetrahydropyran-2-yl)-2-(pentafluorophenylthio)imidazole, mp 156°-158°.

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