Zhu Gangguo, Zhang Zhaoguo
State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, and Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China.
Org Lett. 2004 Oct 28;6(22):4041-4. doi: 10.1021/ol048301r.
[reaction: see text] A Pd(0)-catalyzed 1,2,7-triene cyclization/arylation cascade reaction was realized via pi-allylpalladium intermediate formation and a subsequent Suzuki coupling reaction to preferentially give a five-membered ring product with a stereodefined exocyclic double bond. Excellent cis/trans selectivity was achieved (only cis-3 was isolated) with heteroatom-tethered 1,2,7-triene substrates.