Nickel boron reagent

Stereo- and regioselective synthesis of trienes and tetraenes has been reported by palladium-catalysed coupling of (E)- or (Z)-l-alkenyl boronates with (E)- or (Z)-2-bromo-1-phenylthio-l-alkenes followed by treatment with a Grignard reagent in the presence of a nickel catalyst (equation 146)259. 

The generality of the carbon monoxide insertion reaction is clear from reports that methylcyclopentadienyliron dicarbonyl (16), ethylcyclopentadienylmolylbde-num tricarbonyl (66), alkylrhenium pentacarbonyls (50), alkylrhodium dihalo carbonyl bisphosphines (34), allylnickel dicarbonyl halides (35), and mono-and di-alkyl derivatives of the nickel, palladium, and platinum bisphosphine halides (P), also undergo the reaction. The reaction of Grignard reagents (24), and of boron alkyls (51) with carbon monoxide probably takes place by the same mechanism. 

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