Room-temperature synthesis of tetra-ortho-substituted biaryls by NHC-catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura couplings

Chemistry - A European Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 46, 2011, Pages 12886-12890

  Wu, Linglin ^a,c   Drinkel, Emma ^a,c   Gaggia, Fiona ^a,c   Capolicchio, Samanta ^a,c   Linden, Anthony ^a,c   Falivene, Laura ^b   Cavallo, Luigi ^b   Dorta, Reto ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

biaryls; cross coupling; N heterocyclic carbene ligand; palladium

Indexed keywords

ARYL BROMIDES; BIARYLS; CATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; CROSS-COUPLINGS; DFT CALCULATION; N-HETEROCYCLIC CARBENE LIGANDS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; ROOM TEMPERATURE SYNTHESIS; SIDE-CHAINS; SUZUKI-MIYAURA COUPLING;

BROMINE COMPOUNDS; CARBON INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; CHELATION; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

LIGANDS;

CARBENE; CROSS LINKING REAGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND; METHANE; NAPHTHALENE DERIVATIVE; PALLADIUM;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE;

CATALYSIS; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; METHANE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NAPHTHALENES; PALLADIUM; STEREOISOMERISM; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 80555144134     PISSN: 09476539     EISSN: 15213765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201102442     Document Type: Article

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