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The palladium-catalyzed phenylation of olefins with iodobenzene has been extended to enol esters. In the presence of triethylamine and a catalytic amount of palladium acetate, vinyl acetate is phenylated with iodobenzene to produce, mainly, stilbene, accopanied by small amounts of (E)- and (Z)-styryl acetates.
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Kasahara et al. (1977) studied this question.
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