title: Facile O-arylation of phenols and carboxylic acids.
abstract: [reaction: see text] A facile, transition-metal-free O-arylation procedure for phenols and aromatic carboxylic acids has been developed that affords good to excellent yields of arylated products under very mild reaction conditions. A methoxy-substituted aryl triflate affords O-arylated products in high yields with excellent regioselectivity. This chemistry tolerates a variety of functional groups.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA.
authors.forename: Zhijian
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Richard C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Larock