Shibata Takanori, Toshida Natsuko, Takagi Kentaro
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Okayama University, Tsushima, Okayama 700-8530, Japan.
Org Lett. 2002 May 2;4(9):1619-21. doi: 10.1021/ol025836g.
[reaction: see text]. Rhodium complex-catalyzed carbonylative alkene-alkyne coupling proceeds using aldehydes as a CO source. Cinnamaldehyde is the best CO donor, and various cyclopentenones were provided in high isolated yields by a solvent-free system.