I found this brief reference hinting at another route to p2ps.Could it also be useful for ring substituted p2ps too?Is it feasible or useful and if so can someone with access post it plz?
"...Tri-n-butyl tin methoxide reacts with isopropenyl acetate to give,in situ acetonyl tri-n-butyltin which undergoes a Pd catalysed coupling reaction with aryl bromides[bromobenzene] to give aryl acetones[phenyl-2-propanone]...."
n-Bu3SnOMe ArBr,PdCl2,P(o-tol)3
AcOCH(CH2)CH3 --------------> n-Bu3SnCH2COCH3 --------------> ArCH2COCH3
ref:Chem. Lett.,939 (1982)
Parts in red I have added.