Tetrahedron

Preparation of alkyl-aryl ethers and thioethers

IM Downie, H Heaney, G Kemp

Index: Downie, Ian M.; Heaney, Harry; Kemp, Graham Tetrahedron, 1988 , vol. 44, # 9 p. 2619 - 2624

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Abstract

A method, which involves no molecular rearrangement, and which is also stereospecific, for the preparation of alkyl-aryl ethers and thioethers is described. Stable alkoxyphosphonium salts, ROP (NMe2) 3 PF6-, have been prepared and treated with phenols and thiophenols, under basic conditions, to yield the corresponding alkyl-aryl ethers and thioethers respectively.