Chloroform → HCID 20458160, compound

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A mixture of 42.51 g of bis-(4-phenoxyphenyl)sulfoxide,187.23 g of diphenyl ether and 105.71 g of methane sulfonic acid was heated at 100° C. for 24 hours with stirring. The mixture was poured into 700 g of ice water and the resultant aqueous and sulfonium layers extracted four times with 200-ml portions of ether and five times with 200-ml portions of chloroform. The combined chloroform extracts were dried with magnesium sulfate and the chloroform removed on a rotary evaporator to give 91.66 g of tris-(4-phenoxyphenyl)sulfonium methane sulfonate with 1.7 equivalents of chloroform of solvation. This represents a 100 percent yield.

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