A new family of nucleophiles for photoinduced, copper-catalyzed cross-couplings via single-electron transfer: Reactions of thiols with aryl halides under mild conditions (O C)

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 135, Issue 25, 2013, Pages 9548-9552

  Uyeda, Christopher ^a   Tan, Yichen ^a   Fu, Gregory C ^a   Peters, Jonas C ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOND CLEAVAGES; CONCERTED MECHANISM; CROSS-COUPLINGS; PHOTO-INDUCED; PHOTOINDUCED PROCESS; PHOTOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; REACTION CONDITIONS; SINGLE ELECTRON TRANSFER;

CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; COPPER; COUPLINGS; METAL HALIDES; NUCLEOPHILES;

COPPER COMPOUNDS;

COPPER; HALIDE; IODIDE; NUCLEOPHILE; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

ALKYLATION; ARTICLE; ARYLATION; CROSS COUPLING REACTION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; SINGLE ELECTRON TRANSFER;

CATALYSIS; COPPER; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HYDROCARBONS, HALOGENATED; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84879530506     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja404050f     Document Type: Article

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