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- Ethers are important organic compounds used in various industries, including pharmaceuticals and materials.
- The study presents a method using TFA as a catalyst to efficiently create unsymmetrical ethers from alcohols and different oxygen nucleophiles under mild conditions.
- This method shows high efficiency, with notable yields and practicality for large-scale production, demonstrating its potential for industrial applications.
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Ethers are high value organic compounds widely applied in chemical industry, natural products, material, pharmaceuticals, argochemicals, as well as modern organic synthesis. Herein, we report an adaptive TFA-catalyzed cross-coupling of alcohols with various oxygen nucleophiles (nitro-, halogen-, sulfur-, nitrogen-, aryl-, and alkynyl-substituted aliphatic alcohols), delivering diverse unsymmetrical ethers under mild conditions and simple operation. This protocol features a broad range of substrate scope and high catalytic efficiency (54 examples, up to 99% yield). The decagram scale performance and one-step synthesis of drug molecules evidenced the potential industrial production and practicability of this protocol.
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