Straightforward construction of diarylmethane skeletons via aryne insertion into carbon-carbon sigma-bonds.
Two molar amounts of arynes were found to couple with nitriles via carbon-carbon sigma-bond cleavage, assembling diverse diarylmethane skeletons in a straightforward manner.
Yoshida
Hiroto
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Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8527, Japan. yhiroto@hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Watanabe
Masahiko
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Morishita
Takami
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Ohshita
Joji
J
Kunai
Atsutaka
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