| | (WO/2001/038333) PRODUCTION OF DISUBSTITUTED PENTAFULVENS VIA LITHIATED SILYL-(HALO)ARENE INTERMEDIATES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Lithiated haloarenes, although useful as intermediates in the synthesis of various end products, can be hazardous to prepare since unstable, shock sensitive compounds can be formed during lithiation of haloarenes. |
 | | To avoid this problem, a reaction of a polyhaloarene with a hydrocarbyl lithium compound is conducted in the presence of another reactant so that the lithiated haloarene, if formed at all, exists as a transitory intermediate in low concentration. |
 | | In this way, transitory lithiated haloarene which may be, and presumably is, formed in the reaction is converted into a non-hazardous functionally-substituted haloarene essentially as soon as such lithiated haloarene is formed. |
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