Facile One??Pot Palladium??Catalyzed Sequential Coupling to Diarylmethanes by Using Aryl Methyl Ketones as the Methylene Donors

X Wang, LH Liu, JH Shi, J Peng, HY Tu…

Index: Wang, Xing; Liu, Lian-Hua; Shi, Jin-Hua; Peng, Ji; Tu, Hai-Yang; Zhang, Ai-Dong European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2013 , # 30 p. 6870 - 6877

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Abstract

Abstract A novel palladium-catalyzed coupling reaction of an aryl methyl ketone with two molecules of an aryl halide to yield symmetric diarylmethanes is described. In the facile one- pot reaction, the aryl methyl ketone acts as a formal methylene donor. The experimental facts, including TLC monitoring, speculated intermediates as the raw materials, analysis of the cesium benzoate coproduct by ex situ IR spectroscopy, and the cross-coupling ...