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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a process for selectively functionalizing a cyclic hydrocarbon at a secondary or aromatic C-H cyclic hydrocarbon bond. SOLUTION: The process comprises thermally reacting a functionalizing reagent with a cyclic hydrocarbon in the presence of a catalyst comprising (a) a source of rhodium, (b) a source of a 3-8 cyclic or non-cyclic, aromatic or non-aromatic, neutral, cationic or anionic, substituted or unsubstituted, electron donor moiety undissociated under thermal reaction conditions and (c) a source of ligands formally donating an electron pair to rhodium and dissociated thermally, wherein the functionalizing reagent comprises a source of boron. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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