Organic Letters 2003-02-06

Regioselective palladium-catalyzed arylation of 3-carboalkoxy furan and thiophene.

Bobby Glover, Kimberly A Harvey, Bing Liu, Matthew J Sharp, Maria F Tymoschenko

Index: Org. Lett. 5(3) , 301-4, (2003)

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Abstract

[reaction: see text] The regioselective palladium(0)-catalyzed arylation of 3-furoate and 3-thiophenecarboxylate esters with aryl bromides is described. Conditions were developed that allow for the selective synthesis of either 2-aryl or 5-aryl products.