Grignard-type Addition of Alkenyl- and Alkylzirconocene Chloride to Aldehyde: Remarkable Catalytic Acceleration Effect of AgClO4

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0040-4039(00)61101-2

Nucleophilic addition of alkenylzirconocene chloride to aldehyde, which is ordinarily a slow reaction, is remarkably accelerated by a catalytic amount of AgClO4.The rate acceleration effect is also valid for the alkyl congener, Cp2Zr(Cl)R.