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Iodine Mediated/Broensted Acid-Catalyzed Dimerization of Vinylarenes: A Tan-dem Reaction Through Ritter Trapping to Produce N-(4-Iodo-1,3-diarylbutyl) Acetamides. — The new title one-step reaction is developed by using readily available starting materials. The presence of 1.2 equivalent of H2O gives the same result as com-mercial reagent-grade MeCN. — (HUANG*, J.-M.; YE, Z.-J.; CHEN, D.-S.; ZHU, H.; Org. Biomol. Chem. 10 (2012) 18, 3610-3612, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c2ob25142f ; Sch. Chem. Chem. Eng., South China Univ. Technol., Guangzhou, Guangdong 510640, Peop. Rep. China; Eng.) — C. Gebhardt

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