Abstract
Decarboxylative coupling reactions offer an attractive route to generate functionalized arenes from simple and readily available carboxylic acid coupling partners, yet they are underutilized due to limitations in the scope of carboxylic acid coupling partner. Here we report that the field effect parameter (F) has a substantial influence on the rate of decarboxylation of well-defined silver benzoate complexes. This finding provides the opportunity to surpass current substrate limitations associated with decarboxylation and to enable widespread utilization of decarboxylative coupling reactions.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2434-2437 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Journal of the American Chemical Society |
| Volume | 140 |
| Issue number | 7 |
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| State | Published - Feb 21 2018 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We are grateful to West Virginia University and the NSF (CHE-1453879) for financial support of this work. NMR spectroscopy facilities were supported in part by the NSF (CHE-1228336).
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