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SUBMITTER: Kelley P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3340012 | biostudies-other | 2012 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20120313 12
Mechanistic studies of the hydrogenolysis of aryl ethers by nickel were undertaken with (diphosphine)aryl methyl ethers. A Ni(0) complex containing Ni-arene interactions adjacent to the aryl-O bond was isolated. Heating led to aryl-O bond activation and generation of a nickel aryl methoxide complex. Formal β-H elimination from this species produced a nickel aryl hydride which can undergo reductive elimination in the presence of formaldehyde to generate a carbon monoxide adduct of Ni(0). The repo ...[more]