The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Synthesis of the major pheromonal component of the Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) via palladium-catalyzed 1, 4-functionalization of isoprene

JE Nystroem, JE Baeckvall

Index: Nystroem, Jan-E.; Baeckvall, Jan-E. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1983 , vol. 48, # 22 p. 3947 - 3950

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Abstract

The allylic chloro group in 2 was chemoselectively substituted with sodium dimethyl malonate (classically or with palladium (0) catalysis) without affecting the allylic acetoxy group, which subsequently was replaced with sodium methyl acetoacetate using palladium