The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Metal-promoted cyclization. 26. Palladium-catalyzed cyclization of benzyl halides and related electrophiles containing alkenes and alkynes as a novel route to …

GZ Wu, F Lamaty, E Negishi

Index: Wu, Guang-zhong; Lamaty, Frederic; Negishi, Ei-ichi Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1989 , vol. 54, # 11 p. 2507 - 2508

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Abstract

Summary: Treatment of benzyl halides and related electrophiles containing alkene and alkyne groups with a catalytic amount of Pd complexes, such as Pd (PPh,),, provides the corresponding cyclization products containing five-through seven-membered rings often with retention of the alkene regiochemistry.