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Published on: April 4, 2014
Deoxygenative cross-electrophile coupling of benzyl chloroformates with aryl iodides
Yingying Pan1, Yuxin Gong, Yanhong Song
1Center for Supramolecular Chemistry and Catalysis and Department of Chemistry, Shanghai University, 99 Shang-Da Road, Shanghai 200444, China. hegui_gong@shu.edu.cn.
Abstract:
This work describes Ni-catalyzed cross-electrophile coupling of benzyl chloroformate derivatives with aryl iodides that generates a wide range of diaryl methane products. The mild reaction conditions merit the C-O bond radical fragmentation of benzyl chloroformates via halide abstraction or a single electron reduction by a Ni catalyst. This work offers a new substrate type for cross-electrophile couplings.
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