Journal of the American Chemical Society

Catalytic carbon-carbon bond activation of unstrained ketone by soluble transition-metal complex

CH Jun, H Lee

Index: Jun, Chul-Ho; Lee, Hyuk Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1999 , vol. 121, # 4 p. 880 - 881

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Citation Number: 126

Abstract

The activation of carbon-carbon bonds by soluble transitionmetal complexes has been one of the most prominent challenges in recent years. 1 Although CC single bonds are generally inert to transition metals under homogeneous conditions, some possible ways to cleave CC bonds have been devised: relieving ring energy, 2 inducing aromatic stabilization, 3 forming stable metallacyclic complexes (cyclometalation), 4 etc. 5 These methods all involve ...