Hydrogen-bond-directed catalysis: Faster, regioselective and cleaner heck arylation of electron-rich olefins in alcohols

Chemistry - A European Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 5555-5566

  Hyder, Zeynab ^a   Ruan, Jiwu ^a   Xiao, Jianliang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alcohols; Heck reaction; Hydrogen bonds; Palladium catalysis; Regioselectivity

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; BROMINE COMPOUNDS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ETHERS; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; GLYCOLS; HYDROGEN; OLEFINS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PALLADIUM;

ALCOHOLS; HECK REACTION; HYDROGEN BONDS; PALLADIUM CATALYSIS; REGIOSELECTIVITY;

REACTION KINETICS;

EID: 49449092267     PISSN: 09476539     EISSN: 15213765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chem.200800411     Document Type: Article

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