ISSN 1017-2548(Print)
ISSN 2234-8530(Online)
Volume 33, Number 5
JKCSEZ 33(5)
October 20, 1989 

Diethylbenzoylmalonates with various substituents were synthesized in moderately good yields through palladium-catalyzed carbonylative coupling of aryl iodide and diethylmalonate with carbon monoxide. Palladium-catalyzed carbonylative coupling reaction usually proceeded well in polar aprotic solvents in the presence of three equivalents of inorganic bases and palladium(Ⅱ) catalyst. When the reaction was carried out under 10 atm pressure of carbon monoxide, the yield of diethylbenzoylmalonate derivatives was much better than that of reaction under atomspheric pressure of carbon monoxide.