Martinez Rémi, Genet Jean-Pierre, Darses Sylvain
Laboratoire de Synthèse Sélective Organique (UMR 7573, CNRS), Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris, 11 rue P&M Curie, Paris cedex 05, France.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2008 Sep 7(33):3855-7. doi: 10.1039/b806121a. Epub 2008 Jun 24.
An efficient and practical catalytic system for the anti-Markovnikov ruthenium-catalyzed hydroarylation of styrenes with acetophenone, allowing a straightforward access to bibenzyl backbones, is described for the first time: this process, involving regioselective C-H bond activation, is complementary to a Friedel-Crafts type reaction giving the branched adduct.