Abstract
An air-stable, bulky electron-accepting phosphine ligand (phosphabarrelene) allows the easy reduction of a Pd II precursor to a Pd 0 complex, highly active in room-temperature Negishi-type cross-coupling. DFT calculations show that the use of the electron-accepting ligand favors both transmetalation (TM) and reductive-elimination (RE) processes (see scheme; OA=oxidative addition).
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 14389-14393 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Chemistry - A European Journal |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue number | 51 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 16 Dec 2011 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Negishi reaction
- computational chemistry
- cross-coupling
- phosphabarrelene ligands
- phosphines