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Palladium N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes: Synthesis from Benzimidazolium Salts and Catalytic Activity in Carbon-carbon Bond-forming Reactions
Published on: July 30, 2017
Water-mediated C-H activation of arenes with secure carbene precursors: the reaction and its application
Ruifang Nie1, Ruizhi Lai, Songyang Lv
1Sichuan Engineering Laboratory for Plant-Sourced Drug and Research Center for Drug Industrial Technology, Key Laboratory of Drug-Targeting and Drug Delivery System of the Education Ministry, West China School of Pharmacy, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China. qwang@scu.edu.cn wyong@scu.edu.cn.
Abstract:
A water-mediated C-H activation using sulfoxonium ylides is reported, providing a general, green and step-economic approach to construct a C-C bond and varieties of useful N-heterocycle scaffolds. Notably, the "water-mediated" activation, in contrast to that in organic solvents, shows great potential in pharmaceutical, biochemistry and chemical industries.
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