“…The so-called Mizoroki-Heck reaction, i.e. , the palladium-catalyzed arylation or alkenylation of alkenes has been applied in a variety of new concepts [5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26]. In view of the steadily growing number of oligocyclic compounds with cyclopropyl moieties that show interesting biological activities [27,28,29], it is noteworthy and helpful that the highly reactive building block bicyclopropylidene 10 [30,31] can participate in various palladium-catalyzed cascade reactions to furnish complex skeletons containing cyclopropyl groups [17,18,19,20] A particularly high increase in molecular complexity can be achieved with sequential reactions starting with an intramolecular carbopalladation (the first step of a Heck reaction) of a 2-bromo-1-ene-6-yne and trapping of the formed reactive vinylpalladium halide intermediate by bicyclopropylidene 10 and subsequent transformations [32].…”