Potassium Phosphate, Tribasic → (4'-{1-Ethyl-1-[3-methyl-4-(4,4,4-trifluoro-3-methoxymethoxy-3-trifluoromethyl-1-butynyl)-phenyl]-propyl}-2'-methyl-biphenyl-4-yl)acetic acid methyl ester

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(4-Bromo-phenyl)acetic acid methyl ester (Tetrahedron Letters 44 (2003) 331-334; 28 mg, 0.122 mmol), palladium acetate (1.8 mg, 0.008 mmol), 2-dicyclohexylphosphino-2′,6′-dimethoxy-1,1′-biphenyl (6.6 mg, 0.016 mmol), potassium phosphate (52 mg, 0.246 mmol) and water (0.1 mL) were added to a solution of 2-(4-{1-ethyl-1-[3-methyl-4-(4,4,4-trifluoro-3-methoxymethoxy-3-trifluoromethyl-1-butynyl)-phenyl]-propyl}-2-methyl-phenyl)-4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-[1,3,2]dioxaborolane (Example 25-(4); 50 mg, 0.082 mmol) in toluene (1 mL). After replacement with nitrogen, the mixture was stirred at 100° C. for one hour. The reaction mixture was then poured into a saturated aqueous sodium bicarbonate solution, followed by extraction with dichloromethane. The organic layer was dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate, filtered and concentrated under reduced pressure. The resulting residue was purified by silica gel chromatography (hexane:ethyl acetate=4:1) to give the target compound as a colorless oil (44.9 mg, 86%).

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