10.1002/ejoc.201900732
European Journal of Organic Chemistry
COMMUNICATION
Keywords: C(sp3)−H activation • Hypervalent Iodine • C-H
Imination • Dehydrogenative C-N Coupling • TBAI-TBHP
Following this protocol 2-phenyl-1H-benzo[d]imidazole 2v
was also synthesized in 60% yield from N1-benzylbenzene-1,2-
diamine. Previously this was reported by Bobade and co-workers
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Acknowledgments
We thank Dr. Milan Kumar Barman (NISER) for crystallography.
AB thank CSIR (India) and SS thank NISER for fellowship.
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