Advances in nucleophilic aromatic chemistry
We have developed a new oxidative nucleophilic aromatic amination of substituted nitrobenzenes (Chemical Communications 52: 7237, 2016).
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Direct chloromethylation of substituted nitrobenzenes with lithium salt of dichloromethane proceeded via vicarious nucleophilic substitution mechanism and provided access to chloromethylated nitrobenzenes (Organic Letters 21: 5443, 2019).
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Oxidative nucleophilic alkoxylation of nitrobenzenes affords alkoxylated nitrobenzenes (Organic Chemistry Frontiers 8: 77, 2021).
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