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Highly efficient reduction of unactivated aryl and alkyl iodides by a ground-state neutral organic electron donor
Murphy, John A.,Khan, Tanweer A.,Zhou, Sheng-Ze,Thomson, Douglas W.,Mahesh, Mohan
, p. 1356 - 1360 (2007/10/03)
Electron-transfer reductions of unactivated aryl and alkyl iodides with a neutral ground-state organic molecule are reported. The reducing agent 1 is formed in two steps from N-methylbenzimidazole using very simple chemistry, and subsequent treatment of the iodoalkane or-arene with 1 affords cyclized products (see scheme).
