On the ‘Novel two-phase oxidative cross-coupling of the two-component molecular crystal of 2-naphthol and 2-naphthylamine’

Abstract

The FeCl₃-mediated, heterogeneous cross-coupling of the title compounds (1 + 2 → 3) has been re-examined and formation of the molecular crystal (1 + 2) shown to be irrelevant to the selectivity observed; a comparison of Fe^III and Cu^II as reagents is presented.

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