Room-Temperature Decarboxylative Couplings of α-Oxocarboxylates with Aryl Halides by Merging Photoredox with Palladium Catalysis

Chemistry - A European Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 38, 2015, Pages 13191-13195

  Cheng, Wan Min ^a   Shang, Rui ^a   Yu, Hai Zhu ^a   Fu, Yao ^a  

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

Author keywords

C C coupling; decarboxylation; homogeneous catalysis; palladium; photocatalysis

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLATION; CATALYSIS; KETONES; MERGING; METAL HALIDES; PALLADIUM; PHOTOCATALYSIS; REACTION INTERMEDIATES;

AROMATIC KETONES; C-C COUPLING; DECARBOXYLATION; DECARBOXYLATIVE COUPLINGS; HOMOGENEOUS CATALYSIS; PALLADIUM CATALYSIS; PHOTOREDOX CATALYSIS; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

IRIDIUM;

EID: 84940900259     PISSN: 09476539     EISSN: 15213765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201502286     Document Type: Article

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