Pd(II)-catalyzed decarboxylative allylation and Heck-coupling of arene carboxylates with allylic halides and esters

Jiantao Wang; Zili Cui; Yuexia Zhang; Huajie Li; Long-Min Wu; Zhongquan Liu

doi:10.1039/c0ob00696c

Pd(II)-catalyzed decarboxylative allylation and Heck-coupling of arene carboxylates with allylic halides and esters

Org Biomol Chem. 2011 Feb 7;9(3):663-6. doi: 10.1039/c0ob00696c. Epub 2010 Nov 26.

Authors

Jiantao Wang¹, Zili Cui, Yuexia Zhang, Huajie Li, Long-Min Wu, Zhongquan Liu

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry and Department of Chemistry, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China.

PMID: 21113545
DOI: 10.1039/c0ob00696c

Abstract

This work demonstrates an alternative method to prepare allylated arenes and aryl-substituted allylic esters via catalytic decarboxylative C-C bond formation using aromatic carboxylic acids and allylic halides and esters.