chemrox - 14-9-2007 at 09:45
I have a MW procedure for making this compound, N,N-diphenylacetamide, from 1-methylpyrrolidone and bromobenzene with K2CO3 and CuI.
This is similar enough to another reax I want to do under MW that I'm wondering what the CuI is doing.
Sergei_Eisenstein - 14-9-2007 at 10:37
That's a type of Ullmann reaction. A hypothesis of the catalytic Cu-cycle can be found here:
http://www.organic-chemistry.org/namedreactions/ullmann-reac...
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