Volume 127, Issue 7 pp. 2227-2231
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Silver-Catalyzed Arylation of (Hetero)arenes by Oxidative Decarboxylation of Aromatic Carboxylic Acids

Jian Kan

Jian Kan

State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yangqiao West Road 155, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002 (China)

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Shijun Huang

Shijun Huang

State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yangqiao West Road 155, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002 (China)

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Jin Lin

Jin Lin

State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yangqiao West Road 155, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002 (China)

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Min Zhang

Min Zhang

State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yangqiao West Road 155, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002 (China)

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Prof. Weiping Su

Corresponding Author

Prof. Weiping Su

State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yangqiao West Road 155, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002 (China)

State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yangqiao West Road 155, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002 (China)Search for more papers by this author
First published: 23 December 2014
Citations: 44

Financial support from the 973 Program (Nos. 2011CB932404, 2011CBA00501), NSFC (Nos. 21332001, 21431008, 21301173) and the CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams is greatly appreciated.

Abstract

A long-standing challenge in Minisci reactions is achieving the arylation of heteroarenes by oxidative decarboxylation of aromatic carboxylic acids. To address this challenge, the silver-catalyzed intermolecular Minisci reaction of aromatic carboxylic acids was developed. With an inexpensive silver salt as a catalyst, this new reaction enables a variety of aromatic carboxylic acids to undergo decarboxylative coupling with electron-deficient arenes or heteroarenes regardless of the position of the substituents on the aromatic carboxylic acid, thus eliminating the need for ortho-substituted aromatic carboxylic acids, which were a limitation of previously reported methods.

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