F. Babudri et al., A GENERAL-APPROACH TO CONJUGATED (E,E)-DIENES THROUGH SEQUENTIAL COUPLING REACTIONS, Tetrahedron letters, 35(47), 1994, pp. 8847-8850
a straightforward and useful procedure leading to a variety of conjuga
ted (E,E)-dienes is reported. The method is based upon sequential coup
ling reactions of Grignard reagents with the readily available (1E,3E)
1l-bromo-4-phenylthio-1,3-butadiene in the presence of NiCl2(dppe).