Palladium-catalyzed carbonylative synthesis of arylacetamides from benzyl formates and tertiary amines†
Ming
Lai, 
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Xiao-Feng
Wu
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Xiao-Feng
Wu
*ab
Abstract
An efficient and straightforward palladium-catalyzed carbonylation of benzyl formates and tertiary amines has been explored. In this reaction, benzyl formates were successfully utilized both as CO surrogates and benzyl alcohol substrates, and a variety of arylacetamides were obtained in high yields with good functional group tolerance. Notably, tertiary amines were used as an amine source through a C–N bond cleavage pathway in the absence of additional oxidants.
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