Carbon tetrabromide → [4-[(6-Bromo-3-hexynyl)oxy]butyl]benzene

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Triphenylphosphine (4.5 g) in dry MC (20 ml) was added dropwise to the product of stage (i) (3.8 g) and carbon tetrabromide (5.8 g) in dry MC (50 ml) at 0°. The solution was stirred at 0° for 1 h and MC was evaporated. The residue was treated with ER (100 ml), filtered and the filtrate was evaporated. The residue was purified by FCC eluting with CX followed by CX-ER (4:1) to give the title compound as a colourless oil (4.2 g). T.l.c. (CX-ER 9:1) Rf 0.4.

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