Carbon Tetrachloride → Benzene, (chloroethynyl)-

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In a 10 mL round-bottom flask, a mixture of 0.51 g phenylacetylene (5 mmol), 0.7 g potassium carbonate (5 mmol), 165 mg tetra-n-butylammonium fluoride trihydrate, and 3 mL tetrachloromethane was stirred at 24° C. for 10 min. After filtration of the solids, the filtrate was found to contain 0.68 g of 1-chloro-2-phenylacetylene (99% yield).

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