Nickel-Catalyzed Reductive Cross-Coupling of Benzyl Chlorides with Aryl Chlorides/Fluorides: A One-Pot Synthesis of Diarylmethanes

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• 作者：Jie Zhang ; Gusheng Lu ; Jin Xu ; Hongmei Sun ; Qi Shen
• 刊名：Organic Letters
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：June 17, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：18
• 期：12
• 页码：2860-2863
• 全文大小：365K
• 年卷期：0
• ISSN：1523-7052

文摘

The first nickel-catalyzed, magnesium-mediated reductive cross-coupling between benzyl chlorides and aryl chlorides or fluorides is reported. A variety of diarylmethanes can be prepared in good to excellent yields in a one-pot manner using easy-to-access mixed PPh₃/NHC Ni(II) complexes of Ni(PPh₃)(NHC)Br₂ (NHC = 1,3-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene, IPr, 1a; 1,3-di-tert-butylimidazol-2-ylidene, ItBu, 1b) as catalyst precursors. Activation of polychloroarenes or chemoselective cross-coupling based on the difference in catalytic activity between 1a and 1b is used to construct oligo-diarylmethane motifs.