Evidence of single electron transfer from the enolate anion of an N,N′-dialkyldiketopiperazine additive in BHAS coupling reactions
2017 ◽
Vol 15
(41)
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pp. 8810-8819
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Keyword(s):
A designed N,N′-dialkyldiketopiperazine (DKP) provides evidence for the role of DKP additives as initiators that act by electron transfer in base-induced homolytic aromatic substitution reactions, involving coupling of haloarenes to arenes.