a Glaxo Research and Development Limited, Ware, Hertfordshire, SG12 0DP, U.K.
b Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, 295 Cathedral Street Glasgow, G1 1XL, U.K.
Abstract:
On treatment with Pd(PPh3)4 allyl vinyl ether (1) undergoes a Pd(0) catalysed 1,3 oxygen to carbon allyl shift to afford -allyl ketone (2). In the presence of both Pd(PPh3)4 and base the allyl vinyl ether undergoes a Pd(0) catalysed tandem 1,3 allyl shift and intramolecular Heck arylation to give the spiro indane (3). Mechanistic investigations suggest that the 1,3-allyl shift proceeds via a π-allyl palladium intermediate.