Nickel-catalysed cross-electrophile coupling (XEC) is a useful reaction in synthetic organic chemistry. Now, a nickel-catalysed electrochemical XEC reaction mediated by dynamic ligand exchange enables the formation of a C(sp2)–C(sp3) bond between tertiary alkyl bromides and aryl (pseudo)halides.
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Huang, HM. Electrifying cross-electrophile coupling. Nat. Synth 1, 510–511 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44160-022-00102-8
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