α-Phenylation of ketones via tin enolates catalysed by a palladium complex

M Kosugi, I Hagiwara, T Sumiya, T Migita

Index: Kosugi, Masanori; Hagiwara, Isao; Sumiya, Takashi; Migita, Toshihiko Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1983 , # 7 p. 344 - 345

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Abstract

The reaction of tributyltin enolates, prepared from tributyltin methoxide and enol acetates in situ, with bromobenzene in the presence of a catalytic amount of PdCl2 (o-tolyl3P) 2 was found to give α-phenyl ketones in good yields with essentially complete retetion of the acetate regiochemistry.