title: Catalytic cleavage of ether C-O bonds by pincer iridium complexes.
abstract: The development of efficient catalytic methods to cleave the relatively unreactive C-O bonds of ethers remains an important challenge in catalysis. Building on our group's recent work, we report the dehydroaryloxylation of aryl alkyl ethers using pincer iridium catalysts. This method represents a rare fully atom-economical method for ether C-O bond cleavage.
authors: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08854 (USA) http://chem.rutgers.edu/goldman_alan.
authors: Michael C
authors: MC
authors: Haibach
authors: Nicholas
authors: N
authors: Lease
authors: Alan S
authors: AS
authors: Goldman
mesh_terms: D002384:Catalysis; D004987:Ethers / Q000737:chemistry*; D007495:Iridium / Q000737:chemistry*; D015394:Molecular Structure; D009942:Organometallic Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D004987:Ethers; D009942:Organometallic Compounds; D007495:Iridium
keywords: CH activation; CO cleavage; ethers; iridium; pincer ligands