Triethylamine → dimethyl-thiocarbamic acid O-(4'-tert-butyl-2,6-dimethyl-biphenyl-4-yl)ester

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To a solution of 4′-tert-butyl-2,6-dimethyl-biphenyl-4-ol (10 g, 37.3 mmol) in dioxane (157 ml) is added 4-dimethylaminopyridine (476 mg, 3.9 mmol), triethylamine (10 mL, 78.6 mmol), and dimethylthiocarbamoyl chloride (6.1 g, 49.1 mmol). The reaction mixture is heated to reflux overnight. After cooling to rt, the reaction mixture is partitioned between ethyl acetate and water. The aqueous layer is back-extracted with ethyl acetate, and the combined organic layers are dried and concentrated. The resulting residue is applied to silica gel and eluted using 20% ethyl acetate in hexanes to give dimethyl-thiocarbamic acid O-(4′-tert-butyl-2,6-dimethyl-biphenyl-4-yl)ester (12.2 g).

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