Saturday, October 6, 2012

Gold-Catalyzed Direct Arylation

Gold-Catalyzed Direct Arylation 

Liam T. Ball, Guy C. Lloyd-Jones*, Christopher A. Russell*
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/337/6102/1644.short 
In this paper, a method for coupling two arenes through C-H and C-Si bond activation is reported.   This method relies of differentiation of reacting partners: one must be an aryl silane (electronics not critical), and the other a relatively electron rich partner. 

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