Ketone Formation via Mild Nickel-Catalyzed Reductive Coupling of Alkyl Halides with Aryl Acid Chlorides

Fan Wu, Wenbin Lu, Qun Qian, Qinghua Ren, Hegui Gong

Organic Letters · 2012 · 145 citations · 55 references

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Abstract

The present work highlights unprecedented Ni-catalyzed reductive coupling of unactivated alkyl iodides with aryl acid chlorides to efficiently generate alkyl aryl ketones under mild conditions.

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