Issue 10, 2013
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Catalysis Science & Technology

Highly practical iron-catalyzed C–O cleavage reactions†

Dominik Gärtner,a   Hannelore Konnerthb  and  Axel Jacobi von Wangelin*ab  

* Corresponding authors

a Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Regensburg, Universitätstr 31, 93053 Regensburg, Germany
E-mail: axel.jacobi@ur.de
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b Dept. of Chemistry, University of Cologne, Greinstr. 4, 50939 Koeln, Germany

Abstract

Facile iron-catalyzed cleavage of various allyl, cinnamyl and benzyl C–O linkages has been effected in the presence of ethylmagnesium chloride. The protocol is operationally simple (xylene–THF, r.t., 1 h), requires low catalyst loading (1 mol% FeCl2) and tolerates halides, esters, amines, ethers and olefins. The allyl moiety is converted to volatile hydrocarbons which renders laborious product separation unnecessary.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CY00266G
Article type
Communication
Submitted
17 Apr 2013
Accepted
13 Jun 2013
First published
14 Jun 2013

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2013,3, 2541-2545

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Highly practical iron-catalyzed C–O cleavage reactions

D. Gärtner, H. Konnerth and A. J. von Wangelin, Catal. Sci. Technol., 2013, 3, 2541 DOI: 10.1039/C3CY00266G

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