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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 11.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Synth Catal. 2014 Jul 30;356(11-12):2517–2524. doi: 10.1002/adsc.201400679

Table 4.

Substrate scope of aryl bromides in the α-arylation of benzyl phenyl sulfide.

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entry Br–Ar product isolated yield (%)
1 Br–Ph 4a 86
2 graphic file with name nihms640057t1.jpg 4b 84a
3 graphic file with name nihms640057t2.jpg 4c 82a
4 graphic file with name nihms640057t3.jpg 4d 83
5 graphic file with name nihms640057t4.jpg 4e 73b
6 graphic file with name nihms640057t5.jpg 4f 93
7 graphic file with name nihms640057t6.jpg 4g 50
8 graphic file with name nihms640057t7.jpg 4h 63
9 graphic file with name nihms640057t8.jpg 4i 72a
10 graphic file with name nihms640057t9.jpg 4j 70a
11 graphic file with name nihms640057t10.jpg 4k 68c
a

Slow addition of base for 40 min, 30 min reaction time.

b

Slow addition of base for 40 min at 10 °C, 15 min reaction time.

c

4 h reaction time.