quantitative amount of metal oxidants. Although transferhydrogenation and C-H alkenylation are two important areas that evolved independently, we herein report the first iridium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions of alkenes by integration of directed C(alkenyl)-H alkenylation and transferhydrogenation to obviate the usage of a metal oxidant, employing a hydrogen acceptor such as inexpensive chloranil.
system for an intermolecular addition of formamides to alkynes has been developed. The reaction of formamides with internal alkynes in the presence of a palladium catalyst with acid chloride as an additive afforded (E)-alpha,beta-unsaturated amides regio- and stereoselectively. The same catalyst system realized the first example of the addition of formamides to terminal alkynes giving the corresponding