Readily available N-heterocyclic platinumcarbene complexes 1 are highly efficient catalysts for the regioselective hydrosilylation of alkenes. These novel organometallics tolerate a wide range of functional and protecting groups, can be stored for prolonged periods of time and are particularly active (TON > 10 6 ).
A new protocol has been developed for trifluoromethylation of arenediazonium salts with moisture-sensitive CuCF3 (from fluoroform) in aqueous media. The reaction is governed by a radical mechanism, tolerates a broad variety of functional groups, and is applicable to the synthesis of complex, polyfunctionalized molecules.
2,2,3-Tribromopropanal, a reagent which almost became forgotten in the chemical literature after its first application in the 1950s, is used for the one-step transformation of diversely substituted 4-nitro-and 4-methoxyanilines into 3-bromo-6-nitroquinolines and 3-bromo-6-methoxyquinolines. These intermediates are then converted, in one further step, into 3-bromoquinolin-6-ols, which may carry additional substituents at positions 7 and 8.
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