10.1002/asia.201800923
Chemistry - An Asian Journal
Research Program of China ((973)-2015CB856603), the
Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Grant no. XDB20000000 and sioczz201808, the
National Natural Science Foundation of China (20472096,
21372241, 21572052, 20672127, 21421091, 21372250,
21121062, 21302203, 20732008, 21772037 and 21772226), and
the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
(222201717003).
In conclusion, we have discovered the first example of gold-
catalyzed arylation of benzyl bromides with aryl boronic acids
under mild condition, giving diarylmethane in moderate to good
yields. The intriguing reaction mechanism is probably the
activated naphthyl attack BnBr directly through an unreported
SN2 pathway and has been thoroughly investigated by control
experiments and DFT calculations. Further investigations on the
mechanistic details and exploration of new methodology based
on this kind of reaction pattern are currently underway in our
laboratory.
Conflict of interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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Acknowledgements
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We are grateful for the financial support from the National Basic
Keywords: gold catalysis, cross coupling reaction, arylboronic acids, benzyl bromides
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