Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Palladium catalyzed radical relay for the oxidative cross-coupling of quinolines

  • Xiaorui Zhao,
  • Xiaojuan Zhu,
  • Kang Wang,
  • Junqian Lv,
  • Shangjun Chen,
  • Guohua Yao,
  • Junyu Lang,
  • Fei Lv,
  • Yinghui Pu,
  • Ruoou Yang,
  • Bingsen Zhang,
  • Zheng Jiang,
  • Ying Wan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31967-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Traditional approaches for transition-metal catalyzed oxidative cross-coupling reactions rely on sp 2-hybridized starting materials. Here the authors report a heterogeneous Pd-catalyzed radical relay method for the conversion of a heteroarene C(sp 3)–H bond into ethers.