Tetrahedron Letters

Nickel-catalysed amination of aryl chlorides using a dihydroimidazoline carbene ligand

B Gradel, E Brenner, R Schneider, Y Fort

Index: Gradel, Benot; Brenner, Eric; Schneider, Raphael; Fort, Yves Tetrahedron Letters, 2001 , vol. 42, # 33 p. 5689 - 5692

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Citation Number: 102

Abstract

A new arylamination protocol has been developed using a catalyst combination prepared from Ni (acac) 2 associated to a sterically hindered dihydroimidazoline carbene ligand. A high efficiency was attained using, in most cases, only 2 mol% Ni/carbene clusters.