Mechanism of Ni-catalyzed selective C-O bond activation in cross-coupling of aryl esters

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 131, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 8815-8823

  Li, Zhe ^a   Zhang, Song Lin ^b   Fu, Yao ^b   Guo, Qing Xiang ^b   Liu, Lei ^a  

^a Tsinghua University   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARYL ESTERS; ARYLBORONIC ACIDS; BOND ACTIVATION; CATALYTIC CYCLES; CROSS-COUPLING; CROSS-COUPLING PRODUCTS; FORMER PROCESS; IRREVERSIBLE REACTIONS; OXIDATIVE ADDITIONS; REDUCTIVE ELIMINATION; TRANSMETALATION;

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS;

NICKEL;

BORONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ESTER DERIVATIVE; LIGAND; NICKEL;

ADDITION REACTION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL BOND; CROSS COUPLING REACTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALKALIES; BORONIC ACIDS; CATALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTERS; HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NICKEL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOSPHINES; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 67649612850     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja810157e     Document Type: Article

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