Angewandte Chemie. International edition in English 2014-05-26

CO/C-H as an acylating reagent: a palladium-catalyzed aerobic oxidative carbonylative esterification of alcohols.

Lu Wang, Yanxia Wang, Chao Liu, Aiwen Lei

Index: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 53(22) , 5657-61, (2014)

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Abstract

A palladium-catalyzed oxidative carbonylative esterification of a variety of functionalized alcohols under base- and ligand-free conditions has been demonstrated. A CO/olefin combination was utilized as the acylating reagent with O2 as a benign oxidant. Notably, the scope of the substrate alcohols has been greatly broadened. © 2014 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.