Environmentally friendly homocoupling reaction of functionalized potassium aryl trifluoroborates salts in aqueous media

EF Santos-Filho, JC Sousa, NMM Bezerra…

Index: Santos-Filho, Everaldo F.; Sousa, Jokderlea C.; Bezerra, Natercia M.M.; Menezes, Paulo H.; Oliveira, Roberta A. Tetrahedron Letters, 2011 , vol. 52, # 41 p. 5288 - 5291

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Abstract

The homocoupling reaction between potassium aryl trifluoroborates containing different functionalities promoted by a catalytic amount of Pd (OAc) 2 is described. The methodology uses water as a solvent under aerobic conditions to give the corresponding biaryl compounds in good yields.