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Department of Chemistry, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh-786 004, Assam, India E-mail: dr.pradip54@gmail.com, geetikachem@yahoo.co.in Manuscript received 01 July 2018, accepted 16 July 2018 Biaryls are an important class of organic compounds that occur in many natural products and they have a wide variety of applications in drugs, agrochemicals, dyes, semi-conductors, and asymmetric syntheses. A versatile, eco-friendly, recyclable, heterogeneous catalyst has been developed for the efficient synthesis of symmetric biaryls from aryl boronic acids. The developed protocol for homocoupling of aryl boronic acid to symmetric biaryls is based on copper acetate supported on acid activated Mont K-10 which is ligand free, mild, inexpensive and compatible with wide range of functional groups and exhibit excellent yields. The catalyst is characterised by FTIR, ESR, XRD, SEM-EDX, BET surface area measurement and the catalyst can be separated from the reaction mixture by simple centrifugation and reused upto five cycles without significant loss in activity |
