Synlett

Synthesis of aryl-substituted 1, 4-benzoquinone via palladium (ii)-catalyzed decarboxylative coupling of arene carboxylate with 1, 4-benzoquinone

Y Zhao, Y Zhang, J Wang, H Li, L Wu, Z Liu

Index: Zhao, Yankai; Zhang, Yuexia; Wang, Jiantao; Li, Huajie; Wu, Longmin; Liu, Zhongquan Synlett, 2010 , # 15 p. 2352 - 2356

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Citation Number: 12

Abstract

The development of direct carbon-carbon bond formation that uses safe, environmentally benign, and low-cost starting materials remains a critical challenge for modern synthetic organic chemists. Recently, some efficient metal-catalyzed decarboxylative systems have been explored for CC bond couplings by using simple carboxylic acids as the active coupling partners. [¹] These interesting studies show that acids can replace both halides and organometallic reagents. ...