Ketone formation via mild nickel-catalyzed reductive coupling of alkyl halides with aryl acid chlorides.
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.
Department of Chemistry, Shanghai University, 99 Shang-Da Road, Shanghai 200444, China.
Fan
F
Wu
Wenbin
W
Lu
Qun
Q
Qian
Qinghua
Q
Ren
Hegui
H
Gong