To solve the drawback (considerable decrease in yield on a large scale) of cycloalkenylation employing stoichiometric amounts of Pd(OAc)2, a novel palladium-catalyzed cycloalkenylation has been developed. Stereoselective total syntheses of several bioactive terpenoids have been achieved by means of the above catalytic reaction.
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Toyota et al. (2002) studied this question.