Katie J. Emery, Tell Tuttle and John A. Murphy
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2017,15, 8810-8819
DOI:
10.1039/C7OB02209C,
Paper
A designed N,N′-dialkyldiketopiperazine (DKP) provides evidence for the role of DKP additives as initiators that act by electron transfer in base-induced homolytic aromatic substitution reactions, involving coupling of haloarenes to arenes.