Journal of Organic Chemistry 2005-10-14

Copper salt catalyzed addition of arylboronic acids to azodicarboxylates.

Takeshi Uemura, Naoto Chatani

Index: J. Org. Chem. 70 , 8631, (2005)

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Abstract

The addition of arylboronic acids 1 to azodicarboxylates 2 in the presence of a catalytic amount of a copper salt under mild reaction conditions gives aryl-substituted hydrazines 3 in high yields. The reaction is tolerant of a wide variety of functional groups.