Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

Irradiation-induced palladium-catalyzed decarboxylative desaturation enabled by a dual ligand system

  • Wan-Min Cheng,
  • Rui Shang,
  • Yao Fu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07694-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Production of alkenes through decarboxyolefination of carboxylates is a synthetically useful process. Here, the authors report a palladium/dual ligand-enabled decarboxylative desaturation reaction under mild irradiation conditions and apply it to the synthesis of Chondriamide A and C.