DOI: 10.1039/d6qo00802j ISSN: 2052-4129
Lithium mediated mechanochemical preferential aryl-ether bond reductive cleavage and generation of aryllithiums
Ningxu Li, Haitao Liu, Pengfei Li, Kai Wu, Chak-Shing KwanAryllithium reagents are often generated from arylhalides. Mechanochemical reactions provide an alternative method to selectively generate aryllithiums from aryl-ethers.