Authors: Jianzhong Liu, Jun Pan, Xiao Luo, Xu Qiu, Cheng Zhang, Ning Jiao
Published: 2020-11-10
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As a readily available feedstock, styrene with about 25 million tons of global annual production serves as an important building block and organic synthon for the synthesis of fine chemicals, polystyrene plastics, and elastomers. Thus, in the past decades, many direct transformations of this costless styrene feedstock were disclosed for the preparation of high-value chemicals, which to date, generally performed on the functionalization of styrenes through the allylic C-H bond, C(