The formation of carbon–carbon double bonds is among a select group of key transformations on which much synthetic chemistry is based. This is not surprising, as the fabrication of many natural products and drugs necessitates their assembly via alkenes.[1] Accordingly, numerous processes for their construction have been developed; besides direct elimination [2] there are four widely employed methodologies for the routine and ...
[Lewis, Frederick D.; Oxman, Joe D.; Gibson, Lester L.; Hampsch, Hilary L.; Quillen, Suzanne L. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1986 , vol. 108, # 11 p. 3005 - 3015]
