title: A novel palladium-catalyzed arylation-dehydroaromatization reaction: synthesis of 7-aryltetralones.
abstract: A new one-pot room-temperature palladium-catalyzed synthesis of 7-aryltetralones was discovered. This tandem process includes a palladium-catalyzed gamma-selective arylation of the enone 4 followed by a dehydrogenation-aromatization of the initial cross-coupling product. [reaction: see text]
authors.affiliation: Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 18, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Georgy N
authors.initials: GN
authors.lastname: Varseev
authors.forename: Martin E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Maier