Royal Society of Chemistry, Dalton Transactions, 36(46), p. 12027-12031, 2017
DOI: 10.1039/c7dt03099a
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Direct C2-arylation of NHCs to C2-arylated imidazolium salts (III) is achieved using Ni-catalysis. The dinuclear Ni(i) species I undergoes oxidative addition with ArX to give the Ni(ii) intermediate II. Reductive elimination delivers the arylation product III and regenerates the catalyst I.