A general and practical Lewis acids-catalyzed aryl formates synthesis

作者:Jiang, Li-Bing; Li, Rui; Zhou, Chao; Qi, Xinxin; Peng, Jin-Bao; Wu, Xiao-Feng*
来源:Molecular Catalysis, 2017, 433: 8-11.
DOI:10.1016/j.mcat.2017.02.003

摘要

A general and practical Lewis acids catalyzed synthesis of aryl formates has been established. With catalytic amount of cheap metal as the catalyst, good to excellent yields of aryl formates can be isolated with good functional group tolerance. Formic acid has been applied as the formyl source and triflate salts of zinc, manganese and copper are all suitable catalysts here.