Ammonium Chloride → HCID 15550692, compound

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n-Butyllithium (50 ml, 2.5 M in hexane, 125 mmol) was added dropwise over 10 minutes to a stirred suspension of methyltriphenylphosphonium bromide (45.0 g, 126 mmol) in dry THF (600 ml) under nitrogen at −70° C. The mixture was allowed to warm to −20° C., over 20 minutes, then a solution of 2-(2,4-difluorophenyl)-2-(4-iodobenzoyl)oxirane [37.46 g, 97 mmol, from step (d)] in dry THF (200 ml) was added over 5 minutes. The mixture was allowed to warm to room temperature and stirred for 84 hours. 10% Aqueous ammonium chloride (500 ml) was added, and the mixture was concentrated under reduced pressure. The product was extracted into ethyl acetate and the combined extracts were dried (MgSO4) and concentrated under reduced pressure. The solid residue was treated with boiling hexane (3×500 ml), and the residual solid discarded. The hexane solutions were combined, filtered through a short pad of silica gel, and concentrated under reduced pressure to give the title compound as a yellow oil (34.3 g, 92%), which was characterised by 1H-N.M.R. spectroscopy.

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