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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Gold Catalysis: Biarylphosphine Ligands as Key for the Synthesis of Dihydroisocoumarins

A. Stephen K. Hashmi A B D , Benjamin Bechem A , Annette Loos A , Melissa Hamzic A , Frank Rominger A and Hassan Rabaa C
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A Organisch-Chemisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 270, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.

B Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia.

C Université Ibn Tofail, LCTA, Département de Chimie, PO Box 133, Kénitra 14000, Morocco.

D Corresponding author. Email: hashmi@hashmi.de

Australian Journal of Chemistry 67(3) 481-499 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH13552
Submitted: 11 October 2013  Accepted: 29 January 2014   Published: 27 February 2014

Abstract

A gold-catalyzed phenol synthesis was successfully used in the synthesis of dihydroisocoumarins for the first time. A large number of gold(i) complexes were prepared and tested; only complexes based on the biarylphosphine motif were successful.


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