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Mizoroki-Heck Cross-coupling Reactions Catalyzed by Dichloro{bis[1,1',1''-(phosphinetriyl)tripiperidine]}palladium Under Mild Reaction Conditions
Published on: March 20, 2014
(Acetato-κ(2)O,O')[2'-(di-tert-butyl-phosphanyl)-1,1'-biphenyl-κ(2)P,C(2)]palladium(II)
Charmaine Arderne1, Cedric W Holzapfel
1Department of Chemistry, University of Johannesburg, PO Box 524, Auckland Park, Johannesburg 2006, South Africa.
Abstract:
The structure of the title compound, [Pd(C(2)H(3)O(2))(C(20)H(26)P)], shows a distorted square-planar geometry for the Pd(II) atom, with significant deviations being evident owing to the asymmetric coordination mode of the acetate ligand. A weak intra-molecular C-H⋯O inter-action is noted. The crystal studied was a racemic twin.
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