Ever since the seminal work of Schoenberg and Heck, 1 the aminocarbonylation of aryl and alkenyl halides with carbon monoxide and amines in the presence of palladium-based catalysts has been an important entry to amide functionality. 2 Recently, we 3 and others 4 - 7 have advanced protocols to obviate the need to employ gaseous carbon monoxide in these transformations. However, only in one instance was any of these approaches shown to apply to alkenyl ...
