Uses
2-Chlorophenylzinc iodide is an organozinc compound, which can be used as a reactant in Negishi cross-coupling reaction to construct carbon-carbon bonds by reacting with organic halides using nickel or palladium catalysts.
It can also be utilized as a reactant to prepare:
- Arylmethanes via rhodium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction with methyl halides.
- (2-chlorobenzyl)trimethylsilane by Rh-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction with (iodomethyl)trimethylsilane.
- Dichloro biphenyl by palladium catalyzed oxidative homocoupling reaction using N-chlorosuccinimide (NCS) or O2 as the oxidant.
