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Tied up nicely: A novel tandem reaction involving an intramolecular Heck reaction with subsequent functionalization of an unactivated CH bond to generate spiro-fused indane-oxindoles is described (see scheme; PMB=p-methoxybenzyl).
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Ruck et al. (2008) studied this question.
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