Use of Aluminium as an Electron Pool. Reductive Coupling of Iodobenzenes Promoted by Electron Transfer in an Ni/Pb/Al Multi Redox System

Tanaka, H.; Sumida, S.-i.; Kobayashi, N.; Komatsu, N.; Torii, S. Inorg. Chim. Acta 1994, 222, 323.

Reductive coupling of iodobenzenes was achieved successfully by use of a stoichiometic amount of aluminium metal as an electron source and catalytic amounts of NiCl₂(bpy) (bpy = 2,2'-bipyridyl) and lead (II) bromide as electron transfer catalysts in methanol containing potassium iodide.