Organometallics

Copper (II) hydroxide complexes of N-heterocyclic carbenes and catalytic oxidative amination of arylboronic acids

B Liu, B Liu, Y Zhou, W Chen

Index: Liu, Bo; Liu, Bin; Zhou, Yongbo; Chen, Wanzhi Organometallics, 2010 , vol. 29, # 6 p. 1457 - 1464

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Citation Number: 52

Abstract

Rare examples of Cu (II) hydroxide complexes of N-heterocyclic carbenes have been prepared via simple reactions of the silver (I)− NHC complex or imidazolium salts with copper powder. The copper complex exhibits excellent catalytic activity for N-arylation of azoles with arylboronic acids at room temperature.