Easy access to medium-sized lactones through metal carbene migratory insertion enabled 1,4-palladium shift

Transannular construction of medium-sized lactones is entropically unfavoured. Herein, the authors describe a strategy for valuable medium-sized lactone synthesis from available benzaldehydes by selective C-H bond functionalization via palladium carbene migratory insertion-enabled 1,4-palladium shif...

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Main Authors: Yinghua Yu, Pushkin Chakraborty, Jinshuai Song, Lei Zhu, Chunsen Li, Xueliang Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14101-5