A New Pd-Catalyzed Cascade Reaction for the Synthesis of Strained Aromatic Polycycles

Gaëlle Blond, Christophe Bour, Bahaâ Salem, Jean Suffert

Organic Letters · 2008 · 74 citations · 21 references

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Abstract

Two new palladium catalyzed cascade reactions involving a 4-exo-dig cyclocarbopalladation are described. These processes are shown to convert bromoenediynes and bromodienynes into strained aromatic compounds in a single step.

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