Ruthenium-Catalyzed Allylation of Primary Alcohols by Allylic Acetates: A Novel Synthesis of α,β-Unsaturated Ketones

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/jo00002a003

Certain ruthenium complexes show high catalytic activity in the synthesis of α,β-unsaturated ketones from primary alcohols and allylic acetates.Here, ?-allylruthenium intermediates apparently operate as nucleophiles rather than as electrophiles.