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Light-driven Enzymatic Decarboxylation
Published on: May 22, 2016
Visible-light and thermal driven double hydrophosphination of terminal alkynes using a commercially available iron
Brandon J Ackley1, Justin K Pagano, Rory Waterman
1University of Vermont, Department of Chemistry, Discovery Hall, Burlington, VT 05401, USA. rory.waterman@uvm.edu.
Abstract:
A commercially available iron compound, [CpFe(CO)2]2 (1) (Cp = η5-C5H5), is an efficient catalyst for the double hydrophosphination of terminal aryl alkynes with diphenylphosphine under visible light irradiation or thermal conditions with a reduction of reaction times of up to two orders of magnitude for some substrates over literature reports. The 1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane products generated in these reactions are readily isolated in high yields.
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