Highly efficient synthesis of phenols by copper-catalyzed oxidative hydroxylation of arylboronic acids at room temperature in water

  • Org Lett. 2010 May 7;12(9):1964-7. doi: 10.1021/ol1003884.
Jimin Xu  1 ,  Xinyan Wang ,  Changwei Shao ,  Deyong Su ,  Guolin Cheng ,  Yuefei Hu
Affiliations
  • 1. Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, PR China.
PMID: 20377271 DOI: 10.1021/ol1003884
Abstract

A general and efficient procedure for the preparation of Phenols was developed by copper-catalyzed oxidative hydroxylation of arylboronic acids at room temperature in water.

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