ChemInform Abstract: An Efficient Palladium-Catalyzed Synthesis of Benzils from Aryl Bromides: Vinylene Carbonate as a Synthetic Equivalent of Glyoxal.

✍ Scribed by Ko Hoon Kim; Bo Ram Park; Jin Woo Lim; Jae Nyoung Kim

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Weight: 33 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0931-7597
• DOI: 10.1002/chin.201143084

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Sequential diarylation of vinylene carbonate followed by ring opening to benzoin derivatives and oxidation provides symmetrical benzils (III).