Cs. Nylund et al., CONSECUTIVE CARBON-CARBON BOND FORMATION VIA THE PI-ALLYLPALLADIUM VARIANT OF THE HECK REACTION, Tetrahedron letters, 35(25), 1994, pp. 4287-4290
Two C-C bonds are readily formed by nucleophilic addition of stabilize
d carbanions to the pi-allylpalladium intermediate regioselectively pr
oduced by the Heck reaction of a vinyl bromide and an unactivated olef
in. An intramolecular version of this condensation gives functionalize
d carbobicyclic compounds as products.