JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH 2010 JULY, 382–384 ... Zinc-mediated facile synthesis of a,b-unsaturated primary amides ... Sunlin Feng, Zhiying Zhang, Shilei Jiang and Xiaochun Yu* College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Wenzhou Universtity, Wenzhou 325035, PR China ... A general method for the synthesis of a,b-unsaturated primary amides was achieved by an one-pot, triphenylphos- phine- and zinc powder-promoted Wittig ...