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Organic-solvent-free cross-couplings between benzylic and alkenyl halides have been developed. Various alkenyl halides can be efficiently benzylated by combining the precursor halides in the presence of Zn dust and a Pd catalyst at room temperature, in water as the only medium.
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Krasovskaya et al. (2011) studied this question.
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