The use of t-Bu3P as a ligand dramatically improved the generality of the double carbonylation of aryl iodides, and Mo(CO)6 was also found to be effective as a CO source in the system.

Novel CuO on mesoporous silica is prepared under a convenient approach, and has been shown to be an efficient catalyst for cross-coupling reactions of thiols with aryl iodides with only 1.0-5.0 mol% catalyst loading.

Pd-catalyzed direct C-H arylation of unprotected purine nucleosides with aryl iodides at position 8 was developed to allow a straightforward single-step introduction of diverse aryl groups.

The ruthenium(II)-catalyzed sp3 C-H bond arylation of benzylic amines with aryl halides is reported. In the present method, aryl iodides and, more importantly, also the cheaper aryl bromides and aryl chlorides can be applied as aryl sources. Additionally, the method does not require elaborate manipulations in a glove box and can be carried out in simple screw cap vials. Potassium pivalate prove...

The hemilabile Ad2P(o-C6H4)NMe2 ligand promotes fast, quantitative and irreversible oxidative addition of alkynyl vinyl iodides to gold.

A palladium-catalyzed difluoromethylthiolation of heteroaryl halides and triflates under mild conditions was described. A vast range of heteroaryl halides such as pyridyl, quinolinyl, benzothiazolyl, thiophenyl, carbazolyl and pyazolyl halides could be difluoromethylthiolated efficiently, thus providing medicinal chemists with new tools for their search of new lead compounds for drug discovery....

A scalable CuI-catalyzed Goldberg C–N coupling between aryl iodides and amides is reported either in DESs or water.