Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

Nickel-catalyzed deaminative Sonogashira coupling of alkylpyridinium salts enabled by NN2 pincer ligand

  • Xingjie Zhang,
  • Di Qi,
  • Chenchen Jiao,
  • Xiaopan Liu,
  • Guisheng Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25222-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Alkynes are amongst the most valuable functional groups in organic chemistry, however, the preparation of alkyl-substituted alkynes still remains elusive. Here the authors show a nickel-catalyzed deaminative Sonogashira coupling of alkylpyridinium salts.