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(Scheme 1). The trans-products were selectively obtained in all
cases. The results exhibited that the above catalytic system is
remarkably active and tolerates a range of functional groups. It
was observed that the reactions of aryl iodides with terminal ole-
fins, proceeds smoothly compared to aryl bromides and chlorides
due to the lower bond energy of C-I in comparison with C-Br and
C-Cl. The reaction of chlorobenzene with butyl acrylate, styrene
and acrylonitrile afforded the product in lower yield than the
iodobenzene (Table 2, entries 3e, 3j & 3p). The reaction of aryl
halides bearing electron withdrawing groups such as -NO2, -
COCH3, and -CN are faster than those with electron-donating
groups such as -CH3 and -OCH3. Also, the Heck coupling of steri-
cally hindered 1-iodonaphthalene afforded a good yield of the cor-
responding product (Table 2, entry 3k).
Changing the quantity from 1 equiv. to 1.5 equiv. of diazonium
salt has no remarkable change in the yield of cross coupling pro-
duct (Table 3, entry 8). Furthermore, amount of non-ionic surfac-
tant, Triton X-100 was varied from 1 mol % to 10 mol % and
observed that, 5 mol % of the surfactant gives better yield of the
product (Table 3, entry 8). Therefore, a solution of arenediazonium
salt in water was allowed to react with 1.2 equiv. of butyl acrylate,
5 mol % of surfactant, Triton X-100 in the presence of 20 mg
(0.2 mol % Pd) of catalyst at room temperature and obtained 98%
yield (Table 3, entry 10) of Matsuda-Heck coupling.
To evaluate the scope of the protocol, we applied these opti-
mum conditions to screen different olefins and arenediazonium
tetrafluoroborate salts (Scheme 2). The results are summarized in
Table 4. We have studied the coupling of styrene with arenediazo-
nium salts under the optimized reaction conditions. Due to the
poor reactivity of the styrene substrate, the moderate yields of
the products were obtained (Table 4, entries 6a–6e). In all cases,
the coupling between arenediazonium tetrafluoroborate salts
bearing electron donating as well as electron withdrawing groups
with acrylate substrates, proceeded smoothly to afford the corre-
sponding products in 92–98% yield (Table 4, entries 6f–6m). How-
ever, high yields were obtained for the arenediazonium salts,
bearing strong electron withdrawing groups with acrylonitrile
(Table 4, entry 6p).
Fig. 1. Catalyst: Pd-AcAc-Am-Fe3O4@SiO2.
styrene as model reaction to evaluate the influence of solvent, base
and amount of catalyst. The results are summarized in Table 1.
When the reaction was performed in the absence of the catalyst,
no product was detected. However, when the reaction was per-
formed with Pd-AcAc-Am-Fe3O4@SiO2 in DMF (Table 1, entry 3),
the product was obtained in 82% yield after 5 h, which indicates
that palladium plays a crucial role of catalyst in the Mizoroki-Heck
coupling.
It was also observed that the yield of product improved to 92%
in presence of DMF solvent and triethylamine (TEA) as a base
(Table 1, entry 6). The acid formed in the reaction gets neutralized
with triethyl amine forming a highly hydrophobic quaternary salt
and this step is essential for breaking the activated complex, lead-
ing to product formation which generates again the catalytic spe-
cies for fresh reactant. The amount of catalyst was also varied
and we observed that even though with increasing the amount of
catalyst to 0.5 mol %, no significant change in the yield or reaction
time was found (Table 1, entry 8), while decreasing the amount of
catalyst (0.2 mol %) reduced the yield of product to 88% (Table 1,
entry 10). The reaction was conducted with various bases such as
NaOH, K2CO3, and TEA. Among them, TEA exhibited the best result.
Moreover, with the aim of checking the influence of solvent and
temperature on the reaction yield, various organic solvents such
as CH3CN, EtOH, toluene, and DMSO were examined at wide range
of temperature 25–120 °C. Gratifyingly, it is found that the entry 9
of Table 1 is the best conditions for Pd-AcAc-Am-Fe3O4@SiO2 cat-
alyzed Mizoroki-Heck coupling.
A plausible mechanism for the Pd-AcAc-Am-Fe3O4@SiO2 cat-
alyzed Mizoroki–Heck and Matsuda-Heck cross-couplings is pro-
posed in Scheme 3. The mechanism begins with the reduction of
Pd(II) to the active Pd(0) species in the presence of alkene. Then,
oxidative addition of the CAX bond of an aryl halide (X = I, Br or
In order to check the catalytic activity of Pd-AcAc-Am-Fe3O4@-
SiO2 towards other reactants under optimized conditions, various
types of iodo-, bromo-, and chloroaryl derivatives with electron-
donating and electron-withdrawing groups were coupled with dif-
ferent vinylic substrates like acrylates, styrene and acrylonitrile
–N+2BF-4) to the palladium atom generates the
intermediate (A). In the next step, Pd (II) forms a
r
-arylpalladium
-complex
p
Table 1
Effect of solvents, base and amount of catalyst on Mizoroki-Heck coupling.a
Entry
Solvent
Base
Amount of Catalyst (Mol % Pd)
Time (h)
Yield (%)b
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Water
Water
DMF
DMF
DMF
DMF
DMF: Water
DMF
DMF
DMF
NaOH
K2CO3
NaOH
K2CO3
K2CO3
TEA
TEA
TEA
TEA
TEA
–
12
12
5
5
4
4
5
4
4
NR
Trace
82
86
86
92
72
92
92
0.4
0.4
0.4
0.4
0.4
0.4
0.5
0.3
0.2
4
88
a
Reaction conditions: Bromobenzene (1 mmol), styrene (1.1 mmol), base (2 mmol), temp. = 80 °C, solvent = DMF 5 mL; bIsolated yield.
Please cite this article as: S. P. Vibhute, P. M. Mhaldar, R. V. Shejwal et al., Palladium schiff base complex immobilized on magnetic nanoparticles: An effi-