Palladium homoenolates 3-elimination

Palladium homoenolates readily undergo p-elimination to give a,P-unsaturated carbonyl compounds. Treatment of a mercurio ketone with a catalytic amount of palladium(II) in the presence of CuCh results in the formation of an enone via a 3-palladio ketone (Scheme 3). Treatment of a silyloxycyclopropane (8) with PdCh also generates in situ a palladium homoenolate which then undergoes -elimination (Scheme 3). Heating a mixture of a 3-trichlorostannyl ketone or aldehyde with DMSO results in the formation of an enone or an enal in excellent yield (Scheme 4). ... 

Next to the cyclopropane formation, elimination represents the simplest type of a carbon-carbon bond formation in the homoenolates. Transition metal homoenolates readily eliminate a metal hydride unit to give a,p-unsaturated carbonyl compounds. Treatment of a mercurio ketone with palladium (II) chloride results in the formation of the enone presumably via a 3-palladio ketone (Eq. (24), Table 3) [8], The reaction can be carried out with catalytic amounts of palladium (II) by using CuCl2 as an oxidant. Isomerization of the initial exomethylene derivative to the more stable endo-olefin can efficiently be retarded by addition of triethylamine to the reaction mixture. 

Polladium(II) chloride or its phosphine complex smoothly reacts with siloxy-cyclopropane 1 to produce acrylic ester and a palladium mirror. This reaction probably involves the formation of a chloropalladium homoenolate followed by elimination of palladium hydridochloride (Eq. (56) [56]. 

Transition metal cyclopropanolates underwent ring opening by P-carbon elimination to generate transition metal homoenolates. Palladium(ll)-catalyzed ring opening of substituted cyclopropanols predominantly occurred at the less substituted C-C bond to give conjugated enones (Scheme 2.31) [47]. When the reaction was performed under non-oxidative conditions, a mixture of unsaturated and saturated ketones was obtained [48]. 

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