[cheesewithwhine]

I'm trying to figure out the product of this reaction. For the life of me I can't figure out what the ester is for, it doesn't look like a nucleophile. Thanks!


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[AlphaScent]

This is a type of palladium cross-coupling facilitated by tetrakis.  I am used to halides like in Heck reactions.  Where is this from?  Do you have any back round to it?  I am hesitant to say the allylic acetate is the best leaving group. 

[AlphaScent]

Also, I think you drew your diester wrong.  Oxygen will not have 4 bonds.

[AlphaScent]

Seems that the enol form of the malonate diester will complex with platinum.  If you have access to journals this may be a good paper for you to read.  I base this only off the abstract.

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/1970/C2/c29700000198#!divAbstract

[mst]

Misread sorry

Initially I thought they were aiming for deprotonation of the diester by NEt3 to create a nucleophile, but I think you need stronger bases for that..

[clarkstill]

I suggest you look at the Tsuji-Trost reaction...

[AlphaScent]

Great call.

Awesome chemistry.

I will definitely be reading about this.