Organocopper Reagents that Behave as Functionalized Acyl Anions
Greg W. Ebert, Jennifer A. Ebert

Abstract
The development of acyl anions as synthetic reagents has always been an important goal in organic chemistry. We wish to report examples of functionalized organocopper reagents, produced by the methods of Rieke (Rieke, 1989) and Ebert (Ebert et al., 2005) that have been successfully carbonylated and cross-coupled with alkyl halides to produce functionalized ketones. Although the yields are somewhat low in this initial, exploratory research, the feasibility of this approach is demonstrated. The full potential of this methodology has yet to be determined.

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