Chan Sik Cho, Jae Wook Lee, Dong Yub Lee, Sang Chul Shim and Tae Jeong Kim
Chem. Commun., 1996, 2115-2116
DOI:
10.1039/CC9960002115,
Paper
2-(2-Bromophenyl)-2-oxazolines react with carbon monoxide (3 atm) in alcohol in the presence of a catalytic amount of a bimetallic palladium–nickel catalyst to give the corresponding isoindolinones in high yields.