Chemical Communications 2012-03-07

A highly active and magnetically retrievable nanoferrite-DOPA-copper catalyst for the coupling of thiophenols with aryl halides.

R B Nasir Baig, Rajender S Varma

Index: Chem. Commun. (Camb.) 48(20) , 2582-4, (2012)

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Abstract

Diaryl sulfides were synthesized using a magnetically recoverable heterogeneous Cu catalyst via one-pot multi component reaction using MW irradiation; the use of isopropanol as a benign reaction medium, easy recovery of the catalyst using an external magnet, efficient recycling, and the high stability of the catalyst render the protocol economic and sustainable.This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2012