“…The Mizoroki-Heck (MH) reaction ( Braese and de Meijere, 2014 , Oestreich, 2009 ) was one of the earliest reported method ( Mizoroki et al., 1971 , Heck and Nolley, 1972 ) to execute direct, substoichiometric catalytic modification of simple alkenes; for cycloalkenes, the MH reaction proceeds by overall functionalization of an sp 3 —rather than an sp 2 —CH bond, due to the stereoelectronic control for β-hydride elimination in the key palladium(II) intermediates 1 ( Figure 2 A). In addition to the parent cycloalkene systems, the reaction can be applied to 2,3-dihydropyrans ( Mata et al., 2007 , Wu and Zhou, 2014 ) ( 2 , X=O) and the analogous N-carbamoyl pyrrolines ( Sonesson et al., 1996 , Carpes and Correia, 2002 , Montes de Oca and Correia, 2003 , Garcia et al., 2005 , Peixoto da Silva et al., 2007 , Finelli et al., 2015 ) ( 2 , X=N–C[O]R) ( Figure 2 ), but the reactions can be unpredictable (cf. Figures 2 A and 2B).…”