Palladium‐Catalyzed Two‐Component Domino Coupling Reaction of (Z)‐β‐Bromostyrenes with Norbornenes: Synthesis of 1,5‐Enynes

Polyfunctional molecules, 1,5-enynes, have been achieved via a palladium(0)-catalyzed domino coupling reaction of (Z)-β-bromostyrenes with norbornenes in the presence of cesium carbonate and N,N-dimethylformamide. The process involves a double Heck-type procedure, two-fold C(sp2)H activation and formation of two carbon-carbon bonds. There are possibilities of diversified transformation for the domino coupling of (Z)-β-bromostyrenes with norbornenes, the procedure is successfully driven to 1,5-enynes via accurate adjustment of the reaction conditions.