supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 20972047), the ‘Shu Guang' project of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, Shanghai Education Development Foundation (No. 09SG28), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities and the Shanghai Committee of Science and Technology (No. 11DZ2260600).
A facile iron-catalyzed C(sp3)-C(sp2) bond formation through DDQ-mediated cross-dehydrogenative homo-coupling of (E)-1,2-diarylprop-1-enes for the synthesis of highly aryl-substituted cyclopentenes has been deve...