The title reaction in the presence of a catalytic amount of tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)palladium(0) affords alkylative coupling products in good to excellent yields in 1,2-dichloroethane at room temperature. This coupling reaction under C(sp2)–O cleavage proceeds stereospecifically. The reaction does not affect a coexisting vinyl sulfide group. This feature enables 1,2- and 1,3-carbonyl transposition
In the presence of certain Lewis acids, alkenes containing an alkylthio group (for example, ketene dithioacetals, alkenyl sulfides, alkynyl sulfides, and allenyl sulfides) react with electron deficient olefins to give the corresponding cyclobutane, cyclobutene, or methylene cyclobutane derivatives. By employing a chiral titanium catalyst generated in situ from dichlorodiisopropoxytitanium and a tartrate-derived chiral diol, the [2 + 2] cycloaddition reaction proceeds with high enantioselectivity.
Narasaka Koichi, Hayashi Yujiro, Shimadzu Hideshi, Niihata Shigeo, J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 114 (1992) N 23, S 8869-8885