Allylindium reagents have been used extensively for the introduction of allyl group in a Barbier type manner to various electrophiles. 1-3 Although many reactive electrophiles such as aldehydes and imines have been used in the indium-mediated allylations, 1 the reaction of less reactive nitrile has not been reported much except the first successful results of Yamamoto group2 and our recent papers. 3 Recently, we reported a series of indium- ...
