A fast and convenient base-free Heck reaction of acrylic acid and allyl alcohol with
hypervalent iodonium salts was achieved under microwave irradiation in water, providing
a simple method for synthesis of trans-cinnamic acids and trans-cinnamyl alcohols in good yields in short time.
Heck reaction - hypervalent iodonium salts - microwave irradiation -
trans-cinnamic acids