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Copper‐Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidative Dehydrogenative Coupling of Anilines Leading to Aromatic Azo Compounds using Dioxygen as an Oxidant
Author(s) -
Zhang Chun,
Jiao Ning
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201001651
Subject(s) - catalysis , oxidative phosphorylation , chemistry , oxidative coupling of methane , combinatorial chemistry , molecular oxygen , oxygen , organic chemistry , photochemistry , biochemistry
In the air tonight : A novel approach to symmetric and unsymmetric aromatic azo compounds from simple anilines catalyzed by inexpensive CuBr has been disclosed. Air (or dioxygen) was used as an oxidant under mild reaction conditions, with H 2 O as the byproduct, to make this transformation environmentally benign and very easy to handle.