We report here the selective one pot synthesis of α-pyrones under palladium complex catalysis. Our investigation began with the coupling of tributylstannylallene 8 with (Z)-3-iodoprop -2-enoic acid 5 under conditions previously defined by our group. 6 Unfortunately, neither allenyl substituted propenoic acid nor cyclised products (5- or 6-membered ring lactones) were detected. Only a large amount of tin by-products were recovered, among them the ...
[Chia, Mei; Haider, M. Ali; Pollock, Gerald; Kraus, George A.; Neurock, Matthew; Dumesic, James A. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2013 , vol. 135, # 15 p. 5699 - 5708]