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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
Catalytic Quantities of Inorganic Salt Promote an Electron Donor-Acceptor Complex to Achieve Defluorinated
Hao-Yuan Li1, Xiu-Long Yang1, Rui-Xue Liu1
1Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Diagnosis of the Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of New Pharmaceutical Preparations and Excipients, Hebei Research Center of the Basic Discipline of Synthetic Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology of Hebei Province, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, P. R. China.
Abstract:
A novel strategy has been developed for synthesizing α-naphthols by photoinduced electron donor-acceptor (EDA) complexes. The method has mild reaction conditions, requires no external oxidants or reducing agents, and shows a broad substrate scope. Notably, the activation mode using catalytic quantities of inorganic salts as the EDA donor has scarcely been reported before. Detailed mechanism verification experiments and theoretical calculations further elucidate the details of this activation mode.
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