Potassium Phosphate, Tribasic → (4'-{1-Ethyl-1-[4-(3-ethyl-3-hydroxy-pentyl)-3-methyl-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; 38.5 mg, 0.168 mmol), palladium acetate (2.5 mg, 0.011 mmol), 2-dicyclohexylphosphino-2′,6′-dimethoxy-1,1′-biphenyl (9.0 mg, 0.022 mmol), potassium phosphate (71 mg, 0.336 mmol) and water (0.2 mL) were added to a solution of 3-ethyl-1-(4-{1-ethyl-1-[3-methyl-4-(4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-[1,3,2]dioxaborolan-2-yl)-phenyl]-propyl}-2-methyl-phenyl)-pentan-3-ol (Example 29; 55 mg, 0.112 mmol) in toluene (2 mL). After replacement with nitrogen, the mixture was stirred at 100° C. for 3.5 hours. 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 (30.1 mg, 52%).

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