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Selective cleavage of benzyl and p-methoxybenzyl (anisyl) ethers is permitted by the new range of radical cations of polybrominated triarylamines having various oxidation potentials. One application is the synthesis of (2) from (1); this reaction requires selective protection of the two OH groups and selective deprotection.
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Schmidt et al. (1979) studied this question.
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