Pd-catalyzed decarboxylative Heck vinylation of 2-nitrobenzoates in the presence of CuF₂

• Lukas J. Gooßen,
• Bettina Zimmermann and
• Thomas Knauber

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, No. 43, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.43

• Lukas J. Goossen Bettina Zimmermann Thomas Knauber Department of Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Erwin-Schrödinger-Strasse, Geb. 54, D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany 10.3762/bjoc.6.43 Abstract A new protocol for the decarboxylative Heck vinylation of benzoic

• arenes in good yields. Keywords: carboxylic acids; copper; decarboxylation; Heck vinylation; palladium; Introduction The palladium-catalyzed coupling of olefins with aryl or vinyl substrates, developed by Mizoroki [1] and Heck [2][3] in the 1970s, is one of the most important, reliable and generally

• Büchner funnel, washed sequentially with ethanol (2 × 10 mL) and cold (0 °C) diethyl ether (10 mL), transferred to a round-bottomed flask, and dried at 2 × 10−3 mmHg to provide the corresponding potassium carboxylates 1a–i in 70–98% yield. General procedure for the decarboxylative Heck vinylation An oven