Highly regioselective functionalization of aliphatic carbon-hydrogen bonds with a perbromohomoscorpionate copper(I) catalyst.
The complex Tp(Br3)Cu(NCMe) (1) is an excellent catalyst for the regioselective carbene transfer reaction to tertiary C-H bonds of hydrocarbons, at room temperature, using the readily available ethyl diazoacetate (EDA) as the carbene source.
Caballero
Ana
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Departamento de Química y Ciencia de Materiales, Universidad de Huelva, Campus de El Carmen, 21071-Huelva, Spain.
Díaz-Requejo
M Mar
MM
Belderraín
Tomás R
TR
Nicasio
M Carmen
MC
Trofimenko
Swiatoslaw
S
Pérez
Pedro J
PJ