Organic letters

Selective monolithiation of dibromobiaryls using microflow systems

A Nagaki, N Takabayashi, Y Tomida, J Yoshida

Index: Suga, Seiji; Tsutsui, Yamato; Nagaki, Aiichiro; Yoshida, Jun-Ichi Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 2005 , vol. 78, # 7 p. 1206 - 1217

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Abstract

Selective monolithiation of dibromobiaryls, such as 2, 2′-dibromobiphenyl, 4, 4′- dibromobiphenyl, 2, 7-dibromo-9, 9-dioctylfluorene, 2, 2′-dibromo-1, 1′-binaphthyl, and 5, 5′-dibromo-2, 2′-bithiophene, with 1 equiv of n-butyllithium followed by the reaction with