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  • Investigation into the allylation reactions of aldehydes promoted by the CeCl3.7H2O-NaI system as a Lewis acid.

Investigation into the allylation reactions of aldehydes promoted by the CeCl3.7H2O-NaI system as a Lewis acid.

The Journal of organic chemistry (2004-02-14)
Giuseppe Bartoli, Marcella Bosco, Arianna Giuliani, Enrico Marcantoni, Alessandro Palmieri, Marino Petrini, Letizia Sambri
ABSTRACT

The Lewis acid promoted allylation of aldehydes has become an important carbon-carbon bond forming reaction in organic chemistry. In this context, we have developed an alternative over existing catalytic processes, wherein aldehydes are subject in acetonitrile to reaction of allylation with allyltributylstannane in the presence of 1.0 equiv of cerium(III) chloride heptahydrate (CeCl(3).7H(2)O), an inexpensive and mild Lewis acid. The allylation has been accelerated by using an inorganic iodide as a cocatalyst, and various iodide salts were examined. The procedure must use allylstannane reagent instead of allylsilane reagent, desirable for environmental reasons, but high chemoselectivity was observed, and this is opposite the results obtained with other classical Lewis acids such as TiCl(4) and Et(2)O.BF(3).

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