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Offline harmonic_op

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Phenyl acetylene
« on: May 30, 2019, 09:06:48 AM »
Hello everyone,


Is it possible to synthesize Phenylacetylene using iodobenzene using the coupling reactions?
If yes then can someone help me out with the scheme?

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Re: Phenyl acetylene
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2019, 10:22:18 AM »
Can you suggest a coupling reaction? Acetylene has twoo reactive ends, how will you avoid forming diphenyl acetylene?

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Re: Phenyl acetylene
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2019, 03:02:31 PM »
Can you suggest a coupling reaction? Acetylene has twoo reactive ends, how will you avoid forming diphenyl acetylene?

Is it possible using sonogashira coupling where our desire product is phenylacetylene only.?

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Re: Phenyl acetylene
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2019, 03:46:38 PM »
I think the old trick is to use TMS-acetylene for the Sonogashira, then cleave the TMS with K2CO3/MeOH. I guess you could also use a large excess of acetylene to favour mono-addition, but handling gases is a pain tbh.

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Re: Phenyl acetylene
« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2019, 04:03:44 PM »
I agree with clark. TMS acetylene is simple to handle, and easy to cleave the TMS.

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Re: Phenyl acetylene
« Reply #5 on: May 30, 2019, 04:18:25 PM »
My thought was that harmonic_op would think of TMS-acetylene him/herself?

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