Highly efficient synthesis of 1,1-difluoro-2-substituted-1,3-dienes and dienynes from gem-difluorohomoallenyl bromide via palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions
Ql. Shen et Gb. Hammond, Highly efficient synthesis of 1,1-difluoro-2-substituted-1,3-dienes and dienynes from gem-difluorohomoallenyl bromide via palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions, ORG LETT, 3(14), 2001, pp. 2213-2215
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A stable gem-difluoroallenylindium 1 is readily transformed to a potentiall
y bifunctional electrophile 2, which can then undergo a transition-metal-pr
omoted isomerization-cross coupling cascade to yield diene 3 and dienyne 4
in very high yields.