Burgos, Carlos H.
Barder, Timothy E.
Huang, Xiaohua
Buchwald, Stephen L.

Significantly Improved Method for the Pd-Catalyzed Coupling of Phenols with Aryl Halides: Understanding Ligand Effects

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Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
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2006
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45
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26
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4321-4326
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Abstract

A variety of diaryl ethers were synthesized by the Pd-catalyzed reaction of (hetero)aryl halides and phenols. These reactions were achieved through the use of two new di-tert-butylphosphino biaryl ligands that overcome several limitations of previously described methods.