Pinacol coupling of aromatic aldehydes catalysed by a titanocene complex: a transition metal catalysed radical reaction
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 5,p. 457-458
- https://doi.org/10.1039/a608438i
Abstract
A trinuclear complex derived from titanocene chloride and magnesium bromide is an efficient catalyst for the pinacol coupling of aromatic aldehydes; the 1,2-diols are obtained with good diastereoselectivity and a wide variety of sensitive functional groups are tolerated.Keywords
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