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arylindole by Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling of pentafluorobenzene: He,
C.-Y.; Fan, S.; Zhang, X. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 12850. (f) Pd-
Catalyzed coupling of CO and C−H bonds: Chen, S.; Liao, Y.; Zhao,
F.; Qi, H.; Liu, S.; Deng, G.-J. Org. Lett. 2014, 16, 1618.
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Experimental details, NMR spectra, and X-ray crystallographic
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7) Review on TM-free C−H functionalization: (a) Rossi, R. A.;
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Pierini, A. B.; Penenory, A. B. Chem. Rev. 2003, 103, 71. (b) Sun, C.-L.;
Li, H.; Yu, D.-G.; Yu, M.; Zhou, X.; Lu, X.-Y.; Huang, K.; Zheng, S.-F.; Li,
B.-J.; Shi, Z.-J. Nat. Chem. 2010, 2, 1044. (c) Sun, C.-L.; Gu, Y.-F.; Wang,
B.; Shi, Z.-J. Chem.Eur. J. 2011, 17, 10844. (d) Sun, C.-L.; Gu, Y.-F.;
Huang, W.-P.; Shi, Z.-J. Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 9813. (e) Yanagisawa,
S.; Itami, K. ChemCatChem. 2011, 3, 827. (f) Chan, T. L.; Wu, Y.; Choy,
P. Y.; Kwong, F. Y. Chem.Eur. J. 2013, 19, 15802. (g) Sun, C.-L.; Shi,
Z.-J. Chem. Rev. 2014, 114, 9219.
Notes
The authors declare no competing financial interest.
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(8) (a) Recent reports on TM-free C−H functionalization: Liu, W.;
S.K. thanks the DST New Delhi, DRDO New Delhi, DAE-BRNS
Mumbai, and IISER Bhopal for generous funding. S.K. and S.J.
thank IISER Bhopal, and V.R., A.V., A.K., A.Y., D.P., and M.S.
thank UGC, CSIR New Delhi for a fellowship, respectively.
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