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Aldol- and Mannich-type reactions via in situ olefin migration in ionic liquid
Xiao-Fan Yang1, Mingwen Wang, Rajender S Varma
1Department of Chemistry, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, USA.
Organic Letters
|February 28, 2003
Abstract:
An aldol-type and a Mannich-type reaction via the cross-coupling of aldehydes and imines with allylic alcohols catalyzed by RuCl(2)(PPh(3))(3) was developed with ionic liquid as the solvent. The solvent/catalyst system could be reused for at least five times with no loss of reactivity.