Herein, we report a straightforward, environmentally
friendly,
and controllable palladium/ligand catalytic system to enable reductive/oxidative
Heck reactions of cyclic enones with thiophene or furan derivatives
via C–H activation. The key to this tunable reaction is the
appropriate intercepting thienyl-Pd(II)-enolate during the enolization
process. Such a controllable and economic protocol would not only
provide efficient methods to construct various value-added β-heteroarylated
cyclic ketones/enones but also shed light on developing other conjugate
addition reactions via C–H activation.
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