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Chemoselective monobromination of alkanes promoted by unactivated MnO 2

X Jiang, M Shen, Y Tang, C Li

Index: Jiang, Xuefeng; Shen, Meihua; Tang, Yu; Li, Chaozhong Tetrahedron Letters, 2005 , vol. 46, # 3 p. 487 - 489

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Abstract

Alkanes are among the least reactive yet most abundant chemicals. Efficient functionalization of alkanes leading to the production of useful organic chemicals in an industrial scale is of considerable interest for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries and remains a long-term challenge for chemists. A number of methods employing transition metal reagents have been developed for the C–H bond activation of alkanes. 1 However, these transformations, either ...