Chemsuschem Chemistry And Sustainability, Energy & Materials 2013-04-01

C-C cross-coupling of primary and secondary benzylic alcohols using supported gold-based bimetallic catalysts.

Xiang Liu, Ran-Sheng Ding, Lin He, Yong-Mei Liu, Yong Cao, He-Yong He, Kang-Nian Fan

Index: ChemSusChem 6(4) , 604-8, (2013)

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Abstract

Clean alcohol-alcohol cross-coupling: A clean and efficient one-pot direct C-C cross-coupling of equimolar amounts of primary and secondary alcohols by a facile hydrogen autotransfer pathway is achieved over a robust and easily recovered hydrotalcite-supported Au-Pd bimetallic catalyst system. A variety of primary and secondary alcohols have been selectively converted into the corresponding β-alkylated ketones in good yields.Copyright © 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.