Gold-catalyzed ethylene cyclopropanation.
Silvia G RullAndrea OlmosPedro J PérezPublished in: Beilstein journal of organic chemistry (2019)
Ethylene can be directly converted into ethyl 1-cyclopropylcarboxylate upon reaction with ethyl diazoacetate (N2CHCO2Et, EDA) in the presence of catalytic amounts of IPrAuCl/NaBArF 4 (IPr = 1,3-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazole-2-ylidene; BArF 4 = tetrakis(3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)borate).