Rhodium-Catalyzed Decarbonylative Borylation of Aromatic Thioesters for Facile Diversification of Aromatic Carboxylic Acids

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 2482-2486

  Ochiai, Hidenori ^a   Uetake, Yuta ^a   Niwa, Takashi ^a   Hosoya, Takamitsu ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

borylation; carboxylic acids; decarbonylation; rhodium catalysts; thioesters

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; AROMATIZATION; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CATALYSTS;

AROMATIC CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; BORYLATION; DECARBONYLATIONS; RHODIUM CATALYSTS; RHODIUM-CATALYZED; THIOESTERS;

RHODIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 85011387389     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: 15213773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201611974     Document Type: Article

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