title: Direct palladium-catalyzed arylation of cyclopropenes.
abstract: The first examples of direct palladium-catalyzed arylation and heteroarylation of cyclopropenes have been demonstrated. This method allows for efficient synthesis of various tetrasubstituted cyclopropenes, incuding nonracemic cyclopropenes, which are not available via known asymmetric cyclopropenation methods. Mechanistic studies strongly suggest an electrophilic path for this Heck-type transformation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 West Taylor Street Chicago, Illinois 60607-7061, USA.
authors.forename: Stepan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chuprakov
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rubin
authors.forename: Vladimir
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gevorgyan