Nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling of aryl methyl ethers with aryl boronic esters

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 47, Issue 26, 2008, Pages 4866-4869

  Tobisu, Mamoru ^a   Shimasaki, Toshiaki ^a   Chatani, Naoto ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biaryls; Cleavage reactions; Cross coupling; Nickel; Suzuki Miyaura reaction

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; ETHERS; NAPHTHALENE;

BIARYLS; CLEAVAGE REACTIONS; CROSS-COUPLING; NICKEL; SUZUKI-MIYAURA REACTION;

ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 50049090202     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200801447     Document Type: Article

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