Highly practical iron-catalyzed C–O cleavage reactions

D Gärtner, H Konnerth, AJ von Wangelin

Index: Gaertner, Dominik; Konnerth, Hannelore; Von Wangelin, Axel Jacobi Catalysis Science and Technology, 2013 , vol. 3, # 10 p. 2541 - 2545

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Abstract

Facile iron-catalyzed cleavage of various allyl, cinnamyl and benzyl C–O linkages has been effected in the presence of ethylmagnesium chloride. The protocol is operationally simple (xylene–THF, rt, 1 h), requires low catalyst loading (1 mol% FeCl2) and tolerates halides, esters, amines, ethers and olefins. The allyl moiety is converted to volatile hydrocarbons which renders laborious product separation unnecessary.