<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Subaramanian, Murugan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gouda, Chandrakant</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Roy, Triptesh Kumar</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ganesan, Sivakumar</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Banerjee, Subhrashis</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vanka, Kumar</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Balaraman, Ekambaram</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dehydrogenative coupling of alcohols with internal alkynes under nickel catalysis: an access to β-deuterated branched ketones</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ACS Catalysis</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Alcohols</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">alpha-branched aryl ketones</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">dehydrogenative coupling</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">internal alkynes</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">nickel catalysis</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">pseudoumpolung</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2024</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">MAY</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">14</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">8294-8309</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;
	In synthetic organic chemistry, unconventional strategies for advanced chemical synthesis pose interesting and challenging problems. Alcohols act as alkylating agents in the C-C and C-N bond-forming reactions via the dehydrogenative borrowing hydrogen strategy in traditional transition metal catalysis; however, as an acylating agent in the C-C bond-forming reactions is challenging and rarely reported. Here, we report the dehydrogenative coupling of benzylic alcohols with internal alkynes under nickel(II) catalysis, wherein alcohol is used as an acylating agent. This reaction system affords a wide range of alpha-branched aryl ketone derivatives with zero waste generation through the umpolung borrowing hydrogen strategy. Moreover, we have demonstrated the chemodivergent applications of the alpha-disubstituted ketones to other valuable building blocks, including large-scale synthesis of beta-deuterated branched ketones. Several spectroscopic studies, intermediate identification, and density functional theory calculations were performed to elucidate the reaction mechanism.&lt;/p&gt;
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