Nickel-Catalyzed, Cascade Cycloadditions of 1-Ethynyl-8-halonaphthalenes with Nitriles: Synthesis, Structure, and Physical Properties of New Pyrroloarenes
The reaction of 1‐ethynyl‐8‐halonaphthalenes 1 with nitriles in the presence of the catalytic system [NiBr2(dppe)]/Zn (dppe=1,2‐bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane) is found to produce unusual pyrroloarenes 2. The carbon–nitrogentriplebond in nitrile is activated twice, and five new bonds are formed in a one‐pot transformation, which causes a pyrrole and two six‐membered rings to be generated simultaneously