anthracene; magnesium; methyl iodide in tetrahydrofuran; diethyl ether
Mg/anthracene/MeI in THF stirred at room temp. for 2 h; Me3GeCH2Cl in THF added dropwise; stirred at room temp. for 16 h; DPPA in Et2O added slowly at -15°C; stirred at -10°C for 1 h, then at room temp. for 3 h;; added to pentane/ice; ppt. washed with pentane; organic phase concd.; distd.;;
Vyas, Shubham; Muthukrishnan, Sivaramakrishnan; Kubicki, Jacek; McCulla, Ryan D.; Burdzinski, Gotard; Sliwa, Michel; Platz, Matthew S.; Hadad, Christopher M.
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2010 , vol. 132, # 47 p. 16796 - 16804