A remarkable steric effect in palladium-catalyzed Grignard coupling: regio- and stereoselective monoalkylation and -arylation of 1,1-dichloro-1-alkenes

Functionalized carbon chain elongation has been a central concern in transition-metal complex catalyzed carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions. As part of their continued studies on the palladium-phosphine complex catalyzed selective monoalkylation of organic polyhalides, they report here the first success in the regio- and stereoselective monoalkylation and -arylation of 1,1-dichloro-1-alkenes by Grignard or organozinc reagents in the presence of (PdCl/sub 2/(dppb)), dppb = Ph/sub 2/P(CH/sub 2/)/sub 4/PPh/sub 2/, as a catalyst to produce 1-substituted (Z)-1-chloro-1-alkenes.