Novel Synthesis of Long-Chain Primary Alkyl Compounds

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/jo00322a015

A method has been developed for the efficient laboratory-scale synthesis of long-chain compounds involving the metathesis of α-olefins to long-chain internal olefins, followed by hydrozirconation.The latter process gives the terminally substituted zirconium alkyl exclusively, which can be converted to a wide variety of functional groups.This paper deals exclusively with the formation of long-chain primary iodides.