Chemical Communications 2005-12-21

Cross-coupling of benzylic acetates with arylboronic acids: one-pot transformation of benzylic alcohols to diarylmethanes.

Ryoichi Kuwano, Masashi Yokogi

Index: Chem. Commun. (Camb.) , 5899, (2005)

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Abstract

Benzylic acetates reacted with arylboronic acids in the presence of a DPEphos-[Pd(eta3-C3H5)Cl]2 catalyst when tert-amyl alcohol was used as a solvent, and the catalytic cross-couplings produced diarylmethanes in high yields (up to 94% isolated yield).