Iron-catalyzed carbolithiation of alkynes having no heteroatoms.
Alkyl- and aryllithium compounds were found to add to alkynes having no heteroatoms in the presence of an iron or iron-copper catalyst to give various trisubstituted vinyllithium compounds.
Shirakawa
Eiji
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Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan. shirakawa@kuchem.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Ikeda
Daiji
D
Ozawa
Tsubasa
T
Watanabe
Shogo
S
Hayashi
Tamio
T