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Studies on the synthesis, characterisation and reactivity of aromatic diboronic acids

MH Todd, S Balasubramanian, C Abell

Index: Todd, Matthew H.; Balasubramanian, Shankar; Abell, Chris Tetrahedron Letters, 1997 , vol. 38, # 38 p. 6781 - 6784

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Citation Number: 53

Abstract

In this paper we report on the synthesis and characterisation of diboronic acids, and their reaction with aryl iodides to make terphenyls by the Suzuki reaction.[1]Terphenyls are of interest in the area of liquid crystals,[2]but have not previously been synthesised in this way. Diboronic acids have been used in the study of sugar complexes,[3]but otherwise have not been studied extensively, possibly due to difficulties involved in their analysis (see below). The ...