Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa, 920-1192 Japan
Abstract:
Dehydrative allylation between widely available aldehydes and allylic alcohols to afford β,γ-unsaturated ketones was enabled by a synergistic merger of a thiazolium N-heterocyclic carbene catalyst and a palladium-bisphosphine catalyst.