ChemInform Abstract: Stereoselective Ir(III)-Catalyzed Dimerization Reaction of Enynes: An Entry to Functionalized Polyunsaturated and Cyclic Systems.

✍ Scribed by Mehdi Ez-Zoubir; Florent Le Boucher d'Herouville; Jack A. Brown; Virginie Ratovelomanana-Vidal; Veronique Michelet

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Weight: 38 KB
• Volume: 41
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0931-7597
• DOI: 10.1002/chin.201051027

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The iridium‐catalyzed head‐to‐head dimerization of alkynes (I) and (III) leads selectively to (E)‐alkenes (II) and (IV) in moderate to high yields.