Synthetic organic chemistry experienced a significant advance in the last quarter of the 20th
century with the advent of the transition-metal catalyzed cross-coupling reactions. The utility …

Pick your Pd partners: A number of catalytic systems have been developed for palladium‐
catalyzed C H activation/C C bond formation. Recent studies concerning the palladium …

A brief account of the major developments of palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling during the
last two decades is highlighted chronologically, with an emphasis on the personal …

What is boron? The question itself may not seem very significant to many people. Their
introduction to the word “boron” could come as the butt of a joke. Conan O'Brien made jokes …

Arylraryl bond formation is one of the most important tools of modern organic synthesis.
These bonds are very often found in natural products such as alkaloids as well as in …

N‐Heterocyclic carbenes have become universal ligands in organometallic and inorganic
coordination chemistry. They not only bind to any transition metal, be it in low or high …

Collectively, palladium‐catalyzed coupling reactions represent some of the most powerful
and versatile tools available to synthetic organic chemists. Their widespread popularity …

A wide array of forms of palladium has been utilized as precatalysts for Heck and Suzuki
coupling reactions over the last 15 years. Historically, nearly every form of palladium used …

A general aim of transition metal-catalysed organic synthesis is carbon–carbon (C–C) bond
formation. In this respect, the Pd-catalysed Suzuki–Miyaura (SM) coupling reaction 1 is one …

Through the use of Pd2 (dba) 3/P (t-Bu) 3 as a catalyst, a wide range of aryl and vinyl
halides, including chlorides, undergo Suzuki cross-coupling with arylboronic acids in very …