Acid Chloride Negishi Couplings
With the plethora of new and efficient C–C bond-forming reactions available to the organic chemists growing on a monthly basis, one area that suffers is the substrate scope for previously reported examples. In this case Kim and Reike ( Tetrahedron Lett. 2011, 52, 1523−1526) reinvestigate work originally reported by Rovis. Initially Kim performs a small …