Yangyang Hou, Jing Ma, Hongyi Yang, Edward A. Anderson, Andy Whiting and Na Wu
Chem. Commun., 2019,55, 3733-3736
DOI:
10.1039/C9CC00537D,
Communication
The first example of an intramolecular hydroarylation of 1,6-en-α-chloro-enamides was achieved by a palladium-catalysed ligand-free reductive Heck cycloisomerisation with no competing Heck-cyclised by-product.