摘要:
In the presence of a palladium(0) complex and potassium t-butoxide, the acetylenic compounds 2 bearing in delta a nucleophilic functionality are smoothly transformed with excellent yields, either into 2,2-difunctionalized methylene cyclopentanes or into monofunctionalized 2-methylcyclopentenes. Each of these compounds can be specifically obtained depending on the choice of the experimental conditions.A set of diverse reactions involving mainly potassium hydride as the base showed clearly that HPdOtBu is not the active catalytic species which is mainly a sigma-ethynylpalladium hydride formed by the metal insertion in the acetylenic carbon hydrogen bond.