Straightforward construction of diarylmethane skeletons via aryne insertion into carbon-carbon sigma-bonds

Hiroto Yoshida; Masahiko Watanabe; Takami Morishita; Joji Ohshita; Atsutaka Kunai

doi:10.1039/b616768c

Straightforward construction of diarylmethane skeletons via aryne insertion into carbon-carbon sigma-bonds

Chem Commun (Camb). 2007 Apr 21:(15):1505-7. doi: 10.1039/b616768c. Epub 2007 Feb 5.

Authors

Hiroto Yoshida¹, Masahiko Watanabe, Takami Morishita, Joji Ohshita, Atsutaka Kunai

Affiliation

¹ Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8527, Japan. yhiroto@hiroshima-u.ac.jp

PMID: 17406688
DOI: 10.1039/b616768c

Abstract

Two molar amounts of arynes were found to couple with nitriles via carbon-carbon sigma-bond cleavage, assembling diverse diarylmethane skeletons in a straightforward manner.