Abstract
A formal total synthesis of antidepressant (±)‐paroxetine employing a solvent‐free Heck reaction is disclosed.
Acknowledgments
D. A. K. and A. B. P. thank Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India, for providing fellowships. We are grateful to Shinji Yamada and C. R. D. Correia for kindly providing spectral data of the authentic samples.