A one-pot indole synthesis consisting of a highly regioselective TiCl(4)-catalyzed hydroamination and a 5-endo Heck cyclization starting from 2-chloroaniline is described, using an in-situ generated, sterically hindered imidazol-2-ylidene palladium complex.

Two molar amounts of arynes were found to insert into a Sn-Sn bond of a distannane in the presence of a sub-stoichiometric amount of a palladium-phosphite complex, affording straightforwardly 2,2'-distannylbiaryls.

Palladium (II) coordination complexes catalyze the reaction of alcohols with ketones to yield ethers. During the catalytic cycle, the alcohol adds selectively to the β-carbon (anti-Markovnikov). In this work, mechanism and kinetics for the reaction of methanol with methyl vinyl ketone (MVK), being catalyzed by Pd, has been theoretically investigated in detail. Using quantum mechanical approach,...

A robust palladium NHC complex was synthesized and exhibits exceptional activity and selectivity as a precatalyst in the amination of aryl chlorides and tolerates a wide range of substrates at low catalyst loadings.

The title compound, [PdCl(2)(C(9)H(21)P)(2)], is a centrosymmetric mononuclear palladium(II) complex. The Pd(II) atom, which lies on an inversion center, is in a square-planar geometry.

The anion-assisted shift of trans-cis isomerization equilibrium of a palladium(II) complex containing acetanilide functionalities brought about by allosteric hydrogen bonding interactions has been established by UV/Vis, 1H NMR, 31P NMR and ESI-MS studies.

A novel hydrophilic pyridine-bridged bis-benzimidazolylidene palladium pincer complex (3) acted as a highly efficient robust recyclable molecular catalyst towards Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reactions in aqueous media and tolerated various functional groups (even heterocycles) with extremely low catalyst loading.

Strong hydrogen bonding has been observed in mesomorphic phenanthroline compounds engineered from diacylaminobenzene platforms: a columnar organization is found in the free ligands (n = 12 or 16) whereas a smectic arrangement is evidenced in a palladium complex (n = 16).