Abstract
A wide range of unsaturated aryl-, alkenyl-, alkynylcopper compounds can be selectively homologated by a methylene unit using (iodomethyl)zinc iodide or bis(iodomethyl)zinc. These reactions allow the generation of mixed allylic zinc-copper compounds which can be efficiently trapped with carbonyl compounds. An application to a general preparation of functionalized α-methylene-γ-butyrolactones is described. The homologation of alkynylcoppers with (iodomethyl)zinc iodide allows a one-pot preparation of propargylic copper reagents which in the presence of a carbonyl compound provide various homopropargylic alcohols in excellent yields. In the absence of an electrophile, a clean quadruple methylene homologation of alkynylcoppers occurs to furnish dienic copper reagents
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