FEATUREARTICLE	Synthesis 2003: 1909-1915 DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-40999
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York
Allylation of Carbonyl Compounds by Allylic Acetates Using a Cobalt Halide as Catalyst
Paulo Gomes, Corinne Gosmini*, Jacques Périchon
Laboratoire d'Electrochimie, Catalyse et Synthèse Organique, UMR 7582, Université Paris 12 - C.N.R.S 2, Rue Henri Dunant, 94320 THIAIS e-Mail: gosmini@glvt-cnrs.fr;
Received 4 March 2003

Abstract

In acetonitrile as solvent and in the presence of a simple cobalt halide as catalyst, the reduction by zinc dust of a mixture of aldehydes or ketones and allylic acetates affords the corresponding homoallylic alcohols in good yields.

Key words

allylation - homo-allylic alcohols - carbonyl copmounds - cobalt halide - catalyst