Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol.132, No.11, 3674-3674, 2010
A Highly Efficient Palladium/Copper Cocatalytic System for Direct Arylation of Heteroarenes: An Unexpected Effect of Cu(Xantphos)I
Heteroarenes are important structural moieties in many chemical industry fields. A highly efficient Pd/Cu-catalyzed C-H arylation method for a range of heterocycles has been discovered. It was found that the key to the Success of this transformation is a combination of a palladium catalyst and a well-defined copper cocatalyst. The efficiency and low loadings of catalyst (0.25 mol %) and cocatalyst (1 mol %) together with the mild reaction conditions demonstrate this method to be practically useful and mechanistically interesting.