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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Top Curr Chem (Cham). 2016 May 30;374(3):35. doi: 10.1007/s41061-016-0028-0

Scheme 2.

Scheme 2

Ruthenium catalyzed C-C coupling of primary alcohols with 1,3-dienes to form homoallylic alcohols or β,γ-enones.a

Yields are of material isolated by flash chromatography on silica gel. aLigand = (p-MeOPh)3P, bLigand = rac-BINAP, 2,2′-bis-(diphenylphosphino)-1,1′-binaphthalene. c120 °C.