Catalytic Cleavage of Ether CO Bonds by Pincer Iridium Complexes1. (24th July 2014) - Haibach, Michael C.
Abstract The development of efficient catalytic methods to cleave the relatively unreactive CO bonds of ethers remains an important challenge in catalysis. Building on our group's recent work, we report the dehydroaryloxylation of aryl alkyl ethers using pincer iridium catalysts. This method represents a rare fully atom‐economical method for ether CO bond cleavage.