Gold-catalyzed naphthalene functionalization

• Pedro J. Pérez,
• M. Mar Díaz-Requejo and
• Iván Rivilla

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 653–657, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.77

• bond. In addition, no byproducts derived from carbene coupling were observed. Keywords: carbene insertion; copper catalysts; diazoacetates; gold catalysts; naphthalene functionalization; selective insertion; Introduction At the end of the nineteenth century, Buchner discovered [1] the thermal and