A new approach to ferrocene derived alkenes via copper-catalyzed olefination

• Vasily M. Muzalevskiy,
• Aleksei V. Shastin,
• Alexandra D. Demidovich,
• Namiq G. Shikhaliev,
• Abel M. Magerramov,
• Victor N. Khrustalev,
• Rustem D. Rakhimov,
• Sergey Z. Vatsadze and
• Valentine G. Nenajdenko

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2072–2078, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.223

• of vinyl groups: while for the monoalkene containing molecules no reduction is seen, the divinyl products are reduced in several steps. Keywords: catalytic olefination; copper catalysis; cyclic voltammetry; ferrocene; Introduction The introduction of complex functional fragments into the specified

• –Fuchs reaction) using a 2–4-fold molar excess of triphenylphosphine [27][28][29][30][31]. Results and Discussion Synthesis of halovinylferrocenes A few years ago we discovered a new reaction for a double carbon–carbon bond formation – the reaction of catalytic olefination. It was shown that the copper

• catalytic olefination reaction for the synthesis of ferrocene derivatives. As a result, several well-known and previously unknown ferrocene-containing alkene compounds were obtained. First, ferrocene carbaldehyde was investigated. It was found, that under usual conditions of the reaction (equal amount of