Gold-Catalyzed Benzylic C-H Activation at Room Temperature

摘要

Catalytic C-H activation by metal complexes is a hot topic in organic chemistry and of growing importance for organic synthesis.Only in the last few years has gold been recognized to be active in C-H activation.We reported gold-catalyzed hydroarylation reactions,He et al.proved that with electron-rich arenes these reactions can proceed by initial aryl-C-H activation,and Li also suggested a C-H activation step for the additions of beta-diketones to reactive alkenes.