Competition experiments to assess the relative ease of
addition
of alcohols of differing steric bulk to the benzyne 10. An authentic sample of each of the four alkoxyarene (ROAr) products
was prepared by heating 9 in the appropriate neat alcohol.
The products were obtained in the following yields after chromatographic
purification: R = Me (30%), R = Et (86%), R = i-Pr
(83%), and R = t-BuOH (11, Figure 1b, 62%).