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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 134, Issue 29, Pages 11900-11903Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja3045053
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- EPSRC [EP/G036764/1]
- Bristol Chemical Synthesis Doctoral Training Centre
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The iron-catalyzed hydrocarboxylation of aryl alkenes has been developed using a highly active bench-stable iron(II) precatalyst to give alpha-aryl carboxylic acids in excellent yields and with near-perfect regioselectivity. Using just 1 mol % FeCl2, bis(imino)pyridine 6 (1 mol %), CO2 (atmospheric pressure), and a hydride source (EtMgBr, 1.2 equiv), a range of sterically and electronically differentiated aryl alkenes were transformed to the corresponding alpha-aryl carboxylic acids (up to 96% isolated yield). The catalyst was found to be equally active with a loading of 0.1 mol %. Preliminary mechanistic investigations show that an iron-catalyzed hydrometalation is followed by transmetalation and reaction with the electrophile (CO2).
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