4-Iodophenol (I) was protected as the trimethylsilyl ether (II) with Me3SiCl and then coupled with (trimethylsilyl)acetylene (III) using palladium catalyst and CuI to afford the O-desilylated ethynylphenol (IV). This was condensed under Mitsunobu conditions with N-Boc-imidazolylpropanol (VI), prepared from imidazolylpropanol (V) and Boc2O, to afford ether (VII). Deprotection of the Boc group of (VII) with methanolic hydrazine at r.t. yielded a mixture of (VIII) and the fully desilylated analogue (IX), which was isolated by column chromatography and finally crystallized as the maleate salt from EtOH-Et2O.