A Ball-Milling-Enabled Reformatsky Reaction. - Europe PMC
The ball‐milling‐enabled Reformatsky reaction with ethyl 4‐bromobut‐2‐enoate resulted in 52 % yield of the α‐substituted product 19 with moderate diastereoselectivity (syn/anti=62:38). 2‐Bromoacetonitrile also participated in the in situ generation of an organozinc reagent and formed the corresponding Reformatsky product 3 ...