Facile synthesis of bibenzyl by reductive homocoupling of benzyl halides in aqueous media

Synthetic Communications

Volumn 37, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 3273-3278

  Liu, Jian ^a   Li, Bin ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aqueous media; Bibenzyl; Iron powder; Reductive homocoupling reaction

Indexed keywords

BENZYL DERIVATIVE; BIBENZYL DERIVATIVE; COPPER DERIVATIVE; HALIDE; IRON;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 35148869238     PISSN: 00397911     EISSN: 15322432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00397910701483340     Document Type: Article

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