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Highly efficient, recyclable Pd(II) catalysts with bisimidazole ligands for the Heck reaction in ionic liquids
1Centre for Catalysis Research and Innovation, Department of Chemistry, University of Ottawa, 10 Marie Curie, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1N 6N5.
Organic Letters
|August 29, 2003
Abstract:
[reaction: see text] New Pd(II) complexes with bisimidazole ligands were prepared and proved to be effective catalysts for the Heck reaction under phosphine-free conditions using ionic liquids as solvents. This system could be recycled five times without any loss of catalytic activity.