Xiaoqing Han and, R. Widenhoefer
Jun 28, 2007
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Reaction of 6-methyl-1-phenyl-6-hepten-2-one (4) with a stoichiometric mixture of PdCl2(CH3CN)2 (2) and Me3SiCl in dioxane at 70 °C formed 3-methyldiphenylmethane (6) in 78% isolated yield. A number of experiments supported a mechanism for the conversion of 4 to 6 initiated by palladium-mediated carbonyl-ene reaction to form the isolable palladium alkene-alcohol complex (7) followed by Me3SiCl-mediated dehydration to form the unobserved palladium diene complex (II) and palladium-mediated oxidation of II to form 6.