In the presence of potassium iodide and lithium chloride, the one-pot reaction of gallium powder, allyl-type bromide and aldehyde shows very high selectivity favoring a-adducts. Under the same condition, the reaction of propargylic bromide with aldehyde exhibit high acetylenic selectivity.
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Han et al. (1999) studied this question.
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