a Institute of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Northwest Normal University, 967 Anning Road (E.), Lanzhou 730070, PR China b State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730070, PR China
Abstract:
In the presence of a silylating reagent and catalytic amount of Ni(acac)2, organozinc halides reacted with aromatic aldehydes to give the corresponding dialkylation products in good to excellent yields under mild conditions.