A brand-new Pd-mediated generation of benzyne and its [2+2+2] cycloaddition: δ-carbon elimination and concomitant decarboxylation

✍ Scribed by Hoo Sook Kim; Saravanan Gowrisankar; Eun Sun Kim; Jae Nyoung Kim

• Book ID: 104095801
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 169 KB
• Volume: 49
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2008.09.017

✦ Synopsis

We found a brand-new method for the generation of aryne from methyl 2-bromobenzoates via the Pd-mediated concomitant d-carbon elimination and decarboxylation. The generated arynes underwent Pd-mediated [2+2+2] cycloaddition to give triphenylenes.