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Silver-catalyzed direct benzylation of acetanilide: a highly efficient approach to unsymmetrical triarylmethanes†

Yuting Li,a   Yan Zhu,a   Guangliang Tu,a   Jingyu Zhang*b  and  Yingsheng Zhao ORCID logo *a  

* Corresponding authors

a Key Laboratory of Organic Synthesis of Jiangsu Province, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
E-mail: yszhao@suda.edu.cn

b College of Physics, Optoelectronics and Energy & Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, P. R. China
E-mail: jyzhang@suda.edu.cn

Abstract

A highly efficient silver-catalyzed dibenzylation of acetanilides by employing the benzhydrol derivatives as the coupling partners to yield triphenylmethane derivatives has been developed. Various functional groups were tolerated, leading to the corresponding products in moderate to good yields. Preliminary experimental results indicated that the silver ions activate the arene rings and the strong acid TfOH provides the carbocations.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C8RA06780E
Article type
Paper
Submitted
13 Aug 2018
Accepted
13 Aug 2018
First published
28 Aug 2018
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

RSC Adv., 2018,8, 30374-30378

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Silver-catalyzed direct benzylation of acetanilide: a highly efficient approach to unsymmetrical triarylmethanes

Y. Li, Y. Zhu, G. Tu, J. Zhang and Y. Zhao, RSC Adv., 2018, 8, 30374 DOI: 10.1039/C8RA06780E

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