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SUBMITTER: Wang D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5485668 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Dian D Stahl Shannon S SS
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20170418 16
Copper salts find widespread use in Pd-catalyzed oxidation reactions, and they are typically used as oxidants or redox-active cocatalysts. Here, we probe the origin of a dramatic acceleration effect of Cu(OTf)<sub>2</sub> in the C-H/C-H aerobic oxidative coupling of o-xylene. NMR spectroscopic analysis of the Pd<sup>II</sup> catalyst in the presence of Cu(OTf)<sub>2</sub>, together with other experimental and DFT computational studies of the catalytic reaction, show that Cu(OTf)<sub>2</sub> acti ...[more]