Iron-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of Primary and Secondary Alkyl Halides with Aryl Grignard Reagents
Masaharu Nakamura,* Keiko Matsuo, Shingo Ito and Eiichi Nakamura*
*Department of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo
113-0033, Japan, Email: masaharu
chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp,
nakamura
chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
M. Nakamura, K. Matsuo, S. Ito, E. Nakamura, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 3686-3687.
DOI: 10.1021/ja049744t (free Supporting Information)

Abstract
An iron-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction of a primary or secondary alkyl halide with an aryl Grignard reagent proceeds under mild conditions to give the corresponding coupled product in excellent yield.

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Key Words
ID: J48-Y2004-1410
