ORGANIC LETTERS
Titanium(IV) Chloride and the Amine-Promoted Baylis−Hillman Reaction
2000 Vol. 2, No. 16 2397-2400
Min Shi,* Jian-Kang Jiang, and Yan-Shu Feng Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 354 Fenglin Lu, Shanghai 200032, China
[email protected] Received March 2, 2000 (Revised Manuscript Received July 5, 2000)
ABSTRACT
In the Baylis−Hillman reaction, we found that, when the reactions of arylaldehydes with methyl vinyl ketone were carried out at
