Covalently Bound Benzyl Ligand Promotes Selective Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidative Esterification of Aldehydes with Alcohols

Chao Liu, Shan Tang, Liwei Zheng, Dong Liu, Prof. Heng Zhang and Prof. Aiwen Lei

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2012, 51: 5662–5666

doi: 10.1002/anie.201201960