ChemInform Abstract: A Highly Active and Selective Palladium Pincer Catalyst for the Formation of α-Aryl Ketones via Cross-Coupling.

✍ Scribed by Alejandro Bugarin; Brian T. Connell

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Weight: 31 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0931-7597
• DOI: 10.1002/chin.201144076

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

A novel palladium pincer complex is synthesized and successfully applied as a catalyst in the α‐monoarylation of ketones (I) and (IV) with aryl bromides (II).