October 7, 2010Organic Letters273 citationsOpen Access
View Full PaperMechanistic Insight into Direct Arylations with Ruthenium(II) Carboxylate Catalysts
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Abstract
Mechanistic studies revealed ruthenium-catalyzed direct arylations to proceed through reversible C-H bond activation and subsequent rate-limiting oxidative addition with aryl halides, which led to the development of widely applicable well-defined ruthenium(II) carboxylate catalysts.