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A tale of the unexpected: Coordinating and potentially chelating groups allow gold-catalyzed benzylic CH activation at room temperature. Substrates with additional nucleophilic substituents undergo unexpected dimerizations, in which eight new bonds are formed (see scheme).
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Hashmi et al. (2007) studied this question.
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