Evidence of single electron transfer from the enolate anion of an N,N'-dialkyldiketopiperazine additive in BHAS coupling reactions

Emery, Katie J. and Tuttle, Tell and Murphy, John A. (2017) Evidence of single electron transfer from the enolate anion of an N,N'-dialkyldiketopiperazine additive in BHAS coupling reactions. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 15 (41). pp. 8810-8819. ISSN 1477-0520 (https://doi.org/10.1039/c7ob02209c)

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Abstract

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.