provided by way of explanation of the invention one of many embodiments of the invention and the following examples should not be read to limit or define the scope of the invention a toluene 400 ml solution of benzophenoeimine 18 1 g 100 mmol 1 4 dibromo hexyl benzene 20 g 50 mmol t buona 10 g and dppf 2 pdcl 2 2 g was refluxed under argon the mixture was refluxed for 72 hours and then cooled to room temperature water 70 ml and aqeous hc 1 37 70 ml were added to the mixture which was then refluxed for 10 hours and cooled to room temperature the solvent was removed by rotary evaporator the solid was stirred with ethyl ether 300 ml for 2 days then filtered washed with a small amount of ether and dried which was stirred in ether 200 ml with aqueous naoh 5 m 300 ml the ether phase was separated and dried over mgso 4 and run through a short silica gel column 6 cm u00d7 6 cm the solvent was removed to leave a dark brown solid which was dissolved in eihanol 50 ml after sitting overnight 2 5 dihyxylbenzene 1 4 diamine needles had formed in the solution the needles were collected through filtration yield 6 g 43 fig1 a depicts a 1 h nmr spectrum of 2 5 dihyxylbenzene 1 4 diamine in cdcl 3 fig1 b depicts a chemdraw simulated 1 h nmr spectrum of 2 5 dihyxylbenzene 1 4 diamine fig2 a depicts a 13 c nmr spectrum of 2 5 dihyxylbenzene 1 4 diamine in cdcl 3 fig2 b depicts a chemdraw simulated 13c nmr spectrum of 2 5 dihyxylbenzene 1.