Fang Xianjie, Li Chaolong, Tong Xiaofeng
Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Institute of Fine Chemicals, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2009 Sep 21(35):5311-3. doi: 10.1039/b910532h. Epub 2009 Jul 28.
A formal [2 + 2 + 2] cycloaddition of a 1,6-enyne with 2-bromophenylboronic acid has been realized to construct a multi-substituted dihydronaphthalene scaffold, in which the direct reductive elimination mechanism of aryl-Rh(iii)-C(sp(3)) species has been established to form an aryl-C(sp(3)) bond.