Palladium‐Catalyzed Ring‐Opening Addition of Activated Vinyl Cyclopropanes with N‐Tosylhydrazones

Ring-opening addition reaction of activated vinyl cyclopropanes with N-tosylhydrazones in the presence of palladium(0) and triphenylphosphine affords N-tosylhydrazone butenylmalonate compounds. Aromatic aldehyde-derived N-tosylhydrazones produced terminal and internal N-allylated products, in which the terminal products are the main. While ketone-derived tosylhydrazones produced only terminal addition products. The transformation relationship of the terminal and internal N-allylated products in the reaction was also observed. A reasonable mechanism is proposed based on preliminary experimental results.