The formation of carbon–carbon bond at unsubstituted vinylic positions by the palladium-catalyzed coupling reaction of aryl or vinyl halides with alkenes, known as the Heck reaction, has become a powerful tool in organic chemistry. 1 Palladium-catalyzed arylation of allylic alcohols with aromatic halides is a convenient synthetic method of aromatic-substituted alkyl aldehydes and ketones. 2 Jeffery 3 reported that a highly selective formation of conjugated aromatic ...
[Dewal, Mahender B.; Wani, Amit S.; Vidaillac, Celine; Oupicky, David; Rybak, Michael J.; Firestine, Steven M. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2012 , vol. 51, p. 145 - 153]