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Indium promoted reductive homocoupling of alkyl and aryl halides

BC Ranu, P Dutta, A Sarkar

Index: Ranu, Brindaban C.; Dutta, Pinak; Sarkar, Arunkanti Tetrahedron Letters, 1998 , vol. 39, # 51 p. 9557 - 9558

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Abstract

Abstract : Reductive homocoupling of alkyl and aryl halides in presence of indium metal in DMF produces bialkyls and biaryls in good yields. 1,4-Diketones are obtained from a-iodoketones. © 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords : coupling reaction, bialityl, biaryl, indium ... The synthesis ofbialkyls and biaryls is of comiderable interest, t5 The classical methods for the synthesis of bialkyis and biaryls involve Wurtz ...