Potassium t-butoxide alone can promote the biaryl coupling of electron-deficient nitrogen heterocycles and haloarenes

Organic Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 4673-4676

  Yanagisawa, Shuichi ^a   Ueda, Kirika ^a   Taniguchi, Tadashi ^c   Itami, Kenichiro ^a,b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c SHIMADZU CORPORATION   (Japan)

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EID: 58449085051     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol8019764     Document Type: Article

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