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Benzotriazole: an excellent ligand for Cu-catalyzed N-arylation of imidazoles with aryl and heteroaryl halides

…, J Singh, VK Sankar, R Chaudhary, R Chandra

Index: Verma, Akhilesh Kumar; Singh, Jaspal; Sankar, V. Kasi; Chaudhary, Ritu; Chandra, Ramesh Tetrahedron Letters, 2007 , vol. 48, # 24 p. 4207 - 4210

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Abstract

Benzotriazole (BtH) is an efficient ligand for the Cu-catalyzed N-arylation of imidazoles with aryl and heteroaryl halides. A combination of CuI/BtH was found to be an efficient and inexpensive catalyst system to carry out the N-arylation of imidazoles affording the corresponding products in good to excellent yields.