Dimethyl Sulfoxide/Potassium Hydroxide: A Superbase for the Transition Metal??Free Preparation of Cross??Coupling Products

…, J Bonnamour, E Zuidema, S Chang…

Index: Yuan, Yu; Thome, Isabelle; Kim, Seok Hwan; Chen, Duanteng; Beyer, Astrid; Bonnamour, Julien; Zuidema, Erik; Chang, Sukbok; Bolm, Carsten Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis, 2010 , vol. 352, # 17 p. 2892 - 2898

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Abstract

Abstract Potassium hydroxide (KOH) in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) forms a superbasic medium that allows one to access cross-coupling products from reactions between aryl halides with various sulfur-, oxygen-and nitrogen-based nucleophiles under transition metal- free conditions.