Letters in Organic Chemistry

Efficient Heterogeneously Palladium-Catalysed Synthesis of Stilbenes and Bibenzyls

G Cusati, A Wedig, L Djakovitch

Index: Cusati, Giuseppe; Wedig, Anja; Djakovitch, Laurent Letters in Organic Chemistry, 2009 , vol. 6, # 1 p. 77 - 81

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Abstract

An alternative heterogeneously palladium catalysed procedure for the synthesis of functional stilbenes and bibenzyls is reported. Starting from aryl bromides and using simple commercially available Pd/C catalyst at a low catalytic rate (1 mol%), stilbenes are obtained with 30-100% GC-yields and bibenzyls are produced in a one-pot fashion with 27-100% GC- yields. The procedure showed, however, some limitations when applied to strongly ...