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Novel and efficient oxidative biaryl coupling reaction of alkylarenes using a hypervalent iodine (III) reagent

H Tohma, M Iwata, T Maegawa, Y Kita

Index: Tohma, Hirofumi; Iwata, Minako; Maegawa, Tomohiro; Kita, Yasuyuki Tetrahedron Letters, 2002 , vol. 43, # 50 p. 9241 - 9244

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Abstract

Biaryl compounds serve as key structures of bioactive natural products and chiral ligands for asymmetric reactions, and as precursors for electroconductive materials due to their interesting properties. 1 This makes these compounds attractive synthetic targets. A direct and efficient route to biaryl compounds is via oxidative electron transfer of arenes. Several methods for oxidative biaryl coupling of phenol derivatives using toxic heavy metal oxidants 2., , , , , and such as ...