Alkynes carbopalladation, living process

Whereas alkene insertion is followed by facile dehydropalladation whenever there is a /S-hydrogen to afford alkenes and Pd(0) catalytic species, the alkyne insertion produces the thermally stable alkenylpalladium species 2 and 7, which can not be terminated by themselves and further transformations are required in order to terminate the reactions and to regenerate Pd(0) species for catalytic recycling. In other words, it is generally believed that the reaction of generated alkenylpalladium species 2 and 7 can not be terminated, because the f-R elimination (formation of alkynes or allenes) even in the presence of a /1-hydrogen is not possible. Therefore the carbopalladation of alkynes is a living process, in which alkynes play a role of relay to pass the ability of carbon-carbon bond formation to other reactants. 

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