Manganese‐Catalyzed Oxidative Cross‐Coupling of Grignard Reagents with Oxygen as an Oxidant

Abstract

Oxidative heterocoupling between two Grignard reagents RMgX and R′MgX is made possible by manganese catalysis with O2 as an oxidant. This procedure, development of which was based on mechanistic analysis of the corresponding homocoupling reaction, can be steered towards the heterocoupling product at the expense of the homocoupling products by judicious choice of the R and R′ groups (see examples). Detailed facts of importance to specialist readers are published as ”Supporting Information”. Such documents are peer-reviewed, but not copy-edited or typeset. They are made available as submitted by the authors. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.