Homo- and cross-coupling involving alkenyl halides have been performed efficiently using an electroassisted nickel-complex catalysis. Valuable product such as conjugated dienes, beta,gamma- or gamma,delta-unsaturated esters, ketones, or nitriles, as well as alkenylated aryl compounds are thus prepared with high yields and high stereoselectivity. Partial isomerization is only observed in a few cases, when the alkenyl halide is involved in a late step of the catalytic cycle. This is the case in the preparation of (Z,Z)-1,3-diene.
Nickel-catalyzed electrochemical conjugate additions of substituted aryl bromides to activated olefins under recently optimized reaction conditions are reported. Good to high yields were obtained, whatever the nature of substituents in the meta-and para-positions of the benzene ring. In the or-
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