Efficient Heterogeneously Palladium-Catalysed Synthesis of Stilbenes and Bibenzyls

Title: Efficient Heterogeneously Palladium-Catalysed Synthesis of Stilbenes and Bibenzyls

Volume: 6 Issue: 1

Author(s): Giuseppe Cusati, Anja Wedig and Laurent Djakovitch

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Keywords: Stilbene synthesis, bibenzyl synthesis, one-pot synthesis, heterogeneous palladium catalyst

Abstract: An alternative heterogeneously palladium catalysed procedure for the synthesis of functional stilbenes and bibenzyls is reported. Starting from aryl bromides and using simple commercially available Pd/C catalyst at a low catalytic rate (1 mol%), stilbenes are obtained with 30-100% GC-yields and bibenzyls are produced in a one-pot fashion with 27-100% GC-yields. The procedure showed, however, some limitations when applied to strongly deactivated aryl bromides that could be in some extent overcome by using corresponding iodo derivatives.

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Cusati Giuseppe, Wedig Anja and Djakovitch Laurent, Efficient Heterogeneously Palladium-Catalysed Synthesis of Stilbenes and Bibenzyls, Letters in Organic Chemistry 2009; 6 (1) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/157017809787003043