Tetrahedron Letters

Functional polypyridine ligands from copper-mediated room temperature coupling of 4-chloro-2-trimethylsilylpyridine

F Louërat, PC Gros

Index: Louerat, Frederic; Gros, Philippe C. Tetrahedron Letters, 2010 , vol. 51, # 27 p. 3558 - 3560

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Abstract

A range of functional polypyridine ligands (bipyridines and terpyridine) has been synthesized by copper-mediated oxidative homocoupling of 4-chloro-2-trimethylsilylpyridine or cross-coupling with functional bromopyridines. The reaction proceeded smoothly at room temperature.