A new palladium precatalyst allows for the fast Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reactions of unstable polyfluorophenyl and 2-heteroaryl boronic acids

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 132, Issue 40, 2010, Pages 14073-14075

  Kinzel, Tom ^a   Zhang, Yong ^a   Buchwald, Stephen L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARYL CHLORIDE; BASIC CONDITIONS; BORONIC ACID; CATALYTICALLY ACTIVE SPECIES; COUPLING PROCESS; MONODENTATES; PRECATALYSTS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SHORT REACTION TIME; SUZUKI-MIYAURA COUPLING REACTION; SUZUKI-MIYAURA REACTION; TRIFLATES;

BROMINE COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; PALLADIUM; THIOPHENE;

ACIDS;

BORONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BROMIDE; CHLORIDE; FLUORINE DERIVATIVE; FURAN DERIVATIVE; LIGAND; PALLADIUM; PHENYL GROUP; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON DERIVATIVE; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE; THIOPHENE DERIVATIVE; TRIFLUOROMETHANESULFONIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; CHEMICAL REACTION; DECOMPOSITION; QUANTUM YIELD; REACTION ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SUZUKI MIYAURA COUPLING REACTION;

BORONIC ACIDS; CATALYSIS; PALLADIUM;

EID: 77957698670     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja1073799     Document Type: Article

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