A Novel Rearrangement
Posted by naturalproductman on October 30, 2009
Min Shi and co-worker at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry have reported in Organic Letters on a Pd-catalyzed tandem rearrangement that converted a vinyl cyclopropene into a methylene indene substrate. Para-benzoquinone was used to oxidize Pd(0) into Pd(II).
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