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Copper (1) catalysed aromatic nucleophilic substitution: a mechanistic and synthetic comparison with the SRN1 reaction

WR Bowman, H Heaney, PHG Smith

Index: Bowman, W. Russel; Heaney, Harry; Smith, Philip H. G. Tetrahedron Letters, 1984 , vol. 25, # 50 p. 5821 - 5824

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Abstract

Abstract Evidence is provided to support a mechanism for Cu (1) catalysed aromatic nucleophilic substitution via inner-sphere electron-transfer and a Cu (111) intermediate, and to show the synthetic potential for Cu (1) catalysis relative to the S RN 1 reaction.