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Published on: July 30, 2017
Palladium-Catalyzed Formylation of Aryl Iodides with HCOOH as CO Source
Guanglong Sun1,2, Xue Lv1,2, Yinan Zhang3
1Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shanghai 201203, P. R. China.
Abstract:
A facile and practical method for the synthesis of aromatic aldehydes by palladium-catalyzed reductive carbonylation starting from aryl iodides and HCOOH is described. Compared to the known formylation procedure, HCOOH serves not only as the most convenient and environmental-friendly C1 source but also as the reviving agent in the reductive elimination process of a Pd-catalyst. Furthermore, this procedure is also applied successfully to the modification of natural products, such as vindoline, tabersonin, and vincamine, to obtain the corresponding products in good yields.
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