Iron-catalyzed carbonylation of aryl halides with arylborons using stoichiometric chloroform as the carbon monoxide source

A general iron-catalyzed carbonylative Suzuki-Miyaura coupling of aryl halides with arylborons is reported, using stoichiometric CHCl3 as the CO source. The high efficiency, economy, selectivity, and operational simplicity of this transformation make this method a valuable tool in organic synthesis. Importantly, the presented strategy allows effective C-13 labeling simply by using the commercially available C-13-labeled CHCl3. On the basis of the initial mechanistic exploration, an aryl radical intermediate is proposed in the present carbonylation process.