Arylmethyl halides are readily synthesized via halogenation from the basic raw materials, even in green processes. They are used to replace their downstream products to prepare medicinally important 2-aryl benzimidazoles. CuBr-catalyzed synthesis of 2-aryl benzimidazoles from arylmethyl halides and 1,2-diaminoarenes via a one-pot domino reaction is developed. This new synthetic method is simple, practical and cost saving, and tolerates wide functional groups. A mechanism of CuBr-catalyzed aerobic oxidative domino reaction via a one-pot four-step process is proposed. © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Qiu, D., Wei, H., Zhou, L., & Zeng, Q. (2014). Synthesis of benzimidazoles by copper-catalyzed aerobic oxidative domino reaction of 1,2-diaminoarenes and arylmethyl halides. Applied Organometallic Chemistry, 28(2), 109–112. https://doi.org/10.1002/aoc.3089
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