A simple synthesis of alkyl aryl ethers has been developed involving reaction between an alcohol, a phenol (or an enol), triphenylphosphine, and diethyl azodicarboxylate. By using this procedure several steroid, sugar, pyrimidine, and quinazoline ethers have been prepared.
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MANHAS et al. (1975) studied this question.