Cooperative dual palladium/silver catalyst for direct difluoromethylation of aryl bromides and iodides

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Gu, Yang ^a   Leng, Xuebing ^a   Shen, Qilong ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDE; BENZOTHIAZOLE; BROMINE DERIVATIVE; CARBAZOLE DERIVATIVE; CYCLOPROPYL; ESTER; IODINE DERIVATIVE; KETONE; PALLADIUM; PHENOXIDE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON DERIVATIVE; PYRIDINE; PYRROLE; SILVER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BROMIDE; CATALYST; ESTER; IODIDE; PALLADIUM; REACTION KINETICS; SILVER; STOICHIOMETRY;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; CHEMICAL REACTION; DIFLUOROMETHYLATION; FLUORINATION; METHYLATION; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84921451326     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6405     Document Type: Article

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