Rhenium(I)-Catalyzed Formation of a Carbon−Oxygen Bond: An Efficient Transition Metal Catalytic System for Etherification of Benzyl Alcohols

Abstract

Highly efficient rhenium(I)-catalyzed C−O bond formation from the dehydration of primary benzyl and aliphatic alcohols is reported. The reaction affords unsymmetrical benzyl ethers in good yield with high selectivity.