Max‐Planck‐Institut für Kohlenforschung, 45470 Mülheim/Ruhr (Germany), Fax: (+49)?208‐306‐2994
Abstract:
Sleeping beauty? Is the scientific community about to kiss awake iron catalysis, a topic that has been dormant for decades? A recent study on a user‐friendly direct cross‐coupling reaction of alkyl and aryl halides constitutes an important step toward this end through the integration of two different iron‐catalyzed elementary steps into a practical one‐pot procedure.