title: A novel aromatic carbocation-based coupling reagent for esterification and amidation reactions.
abstract: A novel tropylium-based coupling reagent has been developed to facilitate the synthesis of a series of esters, amides, lactones and peptides under mild reaction conditions. Remarkably, this reagent can be used in catalytic amounts in conjunction with a sacrificial reagent, offering a new and efficient method for nucleophilic coupling reactions of carboxylic acids.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Curtin University, Perth, WA 6102, Australia. thanhvinh.nguyen@curtin.edu.au.
authors.forename: Thanh V
authors.initials: TV
authors.lastname: Nguyen
authors.forename: Demelza J M
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Lyons