C-C bond formation via double C-H functionalization: Aerobic oxidative coupling as a method for synthesizing heterocoupled biaryls

Organic Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 3137-3139

  Dwight, Timothy A ^a   Rue, Nicholas R ^a   Charyk, Dagmara ^a   Josselyn, Ryan ^a   DeBoef, Brenton ^a  

^a University of Rhode Island

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZOFURAN DERIVATIVE; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND; INDOLE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SYNTHESIS;

BENZOFURANS; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; INDOLES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION;

EID: 34547960227     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol071308z     Document Type: Article

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