Chemical Communications

Tandem pinacol coupling–rearrangement of aromatic aldehydes with hydrogen catalyzed by a combination of a platinum complex and a polyoxometalate

O Branytska, LJW Shimon, R Neumann

Index: Branytska, Olena; Shimon, Linda J. W.; Neumann, Ronny Chemical Communications, 2007 , # 38 p. 3957 - 3959

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Abstract

Together with a strongly oxidizing polyoxometalate, H5PV2Mo10O40, PtII (N-(2, 6- diisopropylphenyl) pyrazin-2-ylmethanimine) Cl2 forms a combined catalyst that was active in the tandem pinacol coupling-rearrangement of aryl aldehydes to give mostly the corresponding diarylacetaldehyde in high yields using molecular hydrogen as the reducing agent.