Dehydrative Allylation between Aldehydes and Allylic Alcohols through Synergistic N-Heterocyclic Carbene/Palladium Catalysis.
Hiroki HarukiShigeo YasudaKazunori NagaoHirohisa OhmiyaPublished in: Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) (2018)
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.