Tetrahedron Letters

Brönsted acid-catalyzed synthesis of diarylmethanes under non-genotoxic conditions

O Mendoza, G Rossey, L Ghosez

Index: Mendoza, Oscar; Rossey, Guy; Ghosez, Leon Tetrahedron Letters, 2011 , vol. 52, # 17 p. 2235 - 2239

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Abstract

Triflic acid and triflimide were found to efficiently catalyze the formation of a wide diversity of diarylmethanes from the non-genotoxic benzylic acetates and electron-rich arenes or heteroarenes. The reaction worked best with acetates capable of generating a stabilized ...