Synthesis of aromatic esters via Pd-catalyzed decarboxylative coupling of potassium oxalate monoesters with aryl bromides and chlorides

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 131, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 5738-5739

  Shang, Rui ^a,b   Fu, Yao ^a,b   Li, Jia Bin ^a,b   Zhang, Song Lin ^a,b   Guo, Qing Xiang ^a,b   Liu, Lei ^a,b  

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

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKENYL ESTERS; AROMATIC ESTERS; ARYL BROMIDES; ARYL IODIDES; BIDENTATE PHOSPHINES; CROSS-COUPLINGS; ELECTRON-RICH; LABORATORY SCALE; MONOESTERS; POTASSIUM OXALATE; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; TRANSITION STATE;

BROMINE COMPOUNDS; CARBOXYLATION; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; PALLADIUM COMPOUNDS; PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; POTASSIUM;

PALLADIUM;

BROMINE DERIVATIVE; CHLORINE DERIVATIVE; ESTER DERIVATIVE; OXALATE POTASSIUM; PALLADIUM; POTASSIUM DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 69949117215     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja900984x     Document Type: Article

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