Copper-mediated aerobic trifluoromethyltelluration of boronic acids with [Me4N][TeCF3]

Jing-Yan Dong1, Hao-Nan Wang1, Yan-Qian Xie1

  • 1School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Life Science, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China.

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|December 5, 2022
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