• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.335-338
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• 2009

As important intermediates for blue emitting materials of organic light-emitting diodes, bromotriphenylethylene derivatives for distrylarylenes are prepared by reactions of bromobenzophenone with benzylphosphonates. The reaction produces a 60 : 40 mixture of (Z)- and (E)-geometric isomers that are difficult to be resolved. The (Z)-isomer is successfully isolated by a selective recrystallization process using 2-propanol as a solvent. The X-ray structure analysis of (Z)-isomer shows that dihedral angles between tert-butylphenyl ring and bromophenyl ring and between bromophenyl ring and phenyl ring are $56.5(4)^{\circ}$ and $74.1(4)^{\circ}$, respectively.