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Synthesis of heterosubstituted hexaarylbenzenes via asymmetric carbonylative couplings of benzyl halides

RG Potter, TS Hughes

Index: Potter, Robert G.; Hughes, Thomas S. Organic Letters, 2007 , vol. 9, # 7 p. 1187 - 1190

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Abstract

Asymmetric carbonylative couplings of benzyl halides have been shown to give heterosubstituted 1, 3-diarylacetones in moderate to high yields. These asymmetric ketones were converted via Knoevenagel condensations to tetraarylcyclopentadienones, and further conversion via dehydro-Diels-Alder cycloadditions gave highly heterofunctionalized hexaarylbenzenes with uniquely functionalized aryl groups at the para positions of the ...

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