Formaldehyde in disguise: The allylic amine 1 is used as a masked form of formaldehyde in the rhodium-catalyzed cyclization of dienes 2. The reaction provides access to various cycloalkanones 3 through chelation-assisted CH- and CC-bond activation.
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Lee et al. (2002) studied this question.