31.5.1.2.7 Synthesis of Phenols and Phenolates by Elimination (Update 2018)

Abstract

This chapter is an update to the earlier Science of Synthesis review (Section 31.5.1.2), published in 2007, describing the synthesis of monohydric phenols by elimination approaches. It focuses on recent, palladium-catalyzed arylation/aromatization methods as well as the nickel-catalyzed hydrogenolysis of diaryl ethers.