Two catalyst systems are described, which together provide mild and general conditions for the Pd-catalyzed C–O cross-coupling of primary alcohols. For activated substrates, such as electron-deficient aryl halides, the commercially available ligand L2 promotes efficient coupling for a variety of alcohol nucleophiles. In the case of unactivated electrophiles, such as electron-rich aryl halides, the new ligand L8 was developed to improve these challenging C–O bond-forming reactions.Two catalyst systems are described, which together provide mild and general conditions for the Pd-catalyzed C–O cross-coupling of primary alcohols. For activated substrates, such as electron-deficient aryl halides, the commercially available ligand L2 promotes efficient coupling for a variety of alcohol nucleophiles. In the case of unactivated electrophiles, such as electron-rich aryl halides, the new ligand L8 was developed to improve these challenging C–O bond-forming reactions.
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