“…With allyl acetates as coupling partners, the presence of a methyl group at the a, b, or g position had an effect both on reaction rates and on product yields. Allyl acetate (2), but-1-en-3-yl acetate (23), crotyl acetate (24), and 2-methylallyl acetate (25) afforded the corresponding allylic compounds in good yields in cross-coupling reactions. Treatment of 1-iodonaphthalene with allyl acetate gave 1-al- [b] 33 0 6 SMe 16 7 18 [b] 76 0 7 S O 2 Ph 14 10 78 9 0 8 C l 2 0 3 2 1 8 [b] 40 0 80, 8 [c] lylnaphthalene (26) in 81 % yield under the optimized conditions (Table 3, entry 2), while exposure of 1-iodonaphthalene to the allylindium derived from 23 produced the desired products 27 and 28 in 57 % yield, but with the product 27 resulting from a-attack predominating (a/g 3.7:1) ( Table 3, entry 3).…”