Rm. Adlington et al., A STUDY OF THE INTRAMOLECULAR STILLE CROSS-COUPLING REACTION OF VINYLSTANNYL CHLOROFORMATES - APPLICATION TO THE SYNTHESIS OF ALPHA-METHYLENE LACTONES, Journal of the Chemical Society. Perkin transactions. I, (13), 1994, pp. 1697-1701
An intramolecular Stille cross coupling of vinylstannyl chloroformates
catalysed by trans-benzylchlorobis(triphenylphosphine) palladium(II)
has been investigated and shown to be useful for the preparation of al
pha-methylene lactones. A novel method for the chloroformylation of al
cohols in the presence of vinylstannanes is also described.