A facile route to flavone and neoflavone backbones via a regioselective palladium catalyzed oxidative Heck reaction

Mehdi Khoobi, Masoumeh Alipour, Samaneh Zarei, Farnaz Jafarpour, Abbas Shafiee

Chemical Communications · 2012 · 140 citations · 33 references

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Abstract

A straightforward and atom-economical base-free palladium-catalyzed regioselective direct arylation of coumarins and chromenones is devised. This protocol is compatible with a wide variety of electron-donating and -withdrawing substituents and allows construction of various biologically important flavone and neoflavone backbones.

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