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Green Chemistry on C–H Activation

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The eco-friendly chemistry approach embraces almost all the main branches of chemistry based on the twelve principles introduced by Anastas as green chemistry rules. During the last decade, C–H bond activation protocols attracted intensive consideration as a powerful plan to create organic building blocks of complex structures in organic synthesis and transformations because of its step- and atom-economic nature. In this chapter, a number of innovative green methods of C–H bond activation and functionalization are highlighted.

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Khakyzadeh, V., Sheikhaleslami, S. (2021). Green Chemistry on C–H Activation. In: Anilkumar, G., Saranya, S. (eds) Green Organic Reactions. Materials Horizons: From Nature to Nanomaterials. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6897-2_11

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