Carbonylative homologation reactions are typically catalysed by precious metal catalysts such as palladium and rhodium. Here, aryl iodides are reductively homologated using a nickel triflate catalyst and simple bipyridine ligand, using Mo(CO)6 as the carbonyl source and phenyl silane as the reductant.
- Jin-Bao Peng
- Fu-Peng Wu
- Xiao-Feng Wu