A combined zirconocene benzyne-palladium cross-coupling route to substitute biphenyls and terphenyls [12]

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 121, Issue 40, 1999, Pages 9469-9470

  Frid, Michael ^a   Pérez, Dolores ^a   Peat, Andrew J ^a,b   Buchwald, Stephen L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; PALLADIUM; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON DERIVATIVE; TERPHENYL DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZIRCONIUM DERIVATIVE; ZIRCONOCENE BENZYNE;

CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; LETTER; REACTION ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0344200113     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja992345r     Document Type: Letter

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