Water → 1-Bromo-4-phenylmethoxybenzene

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15.26 g of sodium hydride at 50% in oil were added at 0° C. to a solution under an inert gas atmosphere of 50 g of p-bromophenol in 320 ml of dimethylformamide and after the mixture was stirred for 30 minutes at 0° C., then 37.7 ml of benzyl bromide were added. The mixture was stirred for 2 hours 30 minutes, allowing the temperature to rise to 20° C., and then the reaction mixture was poured into ice-cooled water. The precipitate was filtered off and dried to obtain 73.35 g of the expected product with an Rf: 0.85 (thin layer chromatography, support: silica, eluant: cyclohexane/ethyl acetate 7/3).

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