Carbon-Carbon Bond Forming Reactions via Metal Homoenolates

Abstract

A variety of reactions of nucleophilic metal homoenolates that create new carbon-carbon bonds are reviewed. There have been reported several ways for the preparation of metal homoenolates, which employ either siloxycyclopropanes or 3-halocarbonylcompounds as starting materials. These homoenolates thus prepared react with electrophiles either by themselves or with the aid of transition metal catalysts to give 3-substituted carbonyl compounds through addition, substitution, and carbonylation reactions etc.