Iron-Catalyzed Synthesis of 2-Arylbenzo[b]furans

Iron-Catalyzed Synthesis of 2-Arylbenzo[b]furans

Synthetic Communications

Volume 43, Issue 6, 2013

Jianguo Yang, Guodong Shen & Dingben Chen
pages 837-847

DOI:10.1080/00397911.2011.610550

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00397911.2011.610550

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Abstract

An iron-catalyzed procedure was employed to achieve both the Sonogashira cross-coupling and intramolecular o-arylation of o-iodophenols and aryl acetylenes/1-substituted-2-trimethylsilyl acetylenes. A variety of 2-arylbenzo[b]furans were synthesized in moderate to good yields under the catalysis of 5% FeCl₃ and 10% 1,10-phenanthroline.