Selective 4-arylation of pyridines by a nonmetalloorganic process.
[reaction: see text] Mild and position-selective nucleophilic 4-arylation of pyridines has been accomplished by the use of triflic anhydride N-activation.
Corey
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EJ
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. corey@chemistry.harvard.edu
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