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reduction of the Pd (II) precatalyst to the Pd(0) active spe-
cies. Thus, these results made that the Pd-catalyst (Z4)
has an excellent catalytic activity with recyclability.
Finally, the yield was improved with the increasing of
reaction time (Table S1, entries 17–21). It was also found
that temperature has little effect on the yield of the prod-
uct (Table S1, entries 17 and 22). Therefore, the best
condition in this reaction was the combination of
pd-catalyst (Z4) as a catalyst and water as the solvent
under room temperature in the presence of SDS/K2CO3.
The scope and generality of the optimized protocol
was explored for Suzuki-Miyaura reaction by using a
variety of aryl halide and phenylboronic acids in Table 1.
The electronic nature of the coupling partner has
little influence on the reaction efficiency. Notably,
2-naphthylboronic acid also reacted efficiently with aryl
bromides to give the desired products (23–25) in good
yields. Remarkably, ortho-substituted aryl halides were
coupled with aryl boronic acids to give corresponding
products in moderate yields (76%–80%) (4, 11, 17, 18).
However, highly sterically hindered di-ortho substituted
biphenyls cannot be synthesized under the same condi-
tions (7), indicating that the catalyst was the low toler-
ance toward steric hindrance at the substrates. An
increased of reaction time and catalyst loading did not
significantly affect this behaviour. Finally, aryl chlorides
were evaluated under room temperature, but none of
them showed enough activity to give product. However,
and no change was observed. Meanwhile, the amount of
Pd remaining after the 15 cycles was 0.381 mmol g−1 as
determined using ICP-OES analysis (23% leaching).
These results proved that the Pd-catalyst (Z4) has a stable
structure and can be recycled many times with good sus-
tainability. Further, we also studied the critical reaction
parameters of catalyst (turnover numbers = TON; turn-
over frequency = TOF). Table 1 and Table 2 showed the
results of these investigations. It was possible to achieve a
TON of 380 for the reaction at room temperature (1).
These results represented a significant improvement
compared with refluxed conditions in the literature,[32]
although vale of TON is equivalent. The results showed
that the pd-catalyst (Z4) has an excellent catalytic activity
and high catalytic efficiency in the Suzuki reaction.
3.7 | The Mizoroki-heck cross-coupling
reaction
Initially, 4-Iodoanisole (c1) and Methyl acrylate (d1) were
chosen as the model substrates for Heck reaction. To our
delight, it can be observed that the yield was significant
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enhanced to 86% at 80 C. Meanwhile, as the reaction
time was increased the yields are also improved to 88%
(See SI Table S2).
The scope and generality of the optimized protocol
was explored for Heck reaction of various aryl iodide
and bromides with olefins in Table 2. It can be
observed that aryl iodine with electron withdrawing
substituents such as -NO2, -CN, and -Cl led to high
yields of the corresponding products (29–31). Aryl
iodines with electron-donating groups like -OMe under-
went the reaction smoothly to give moderate yields of
products (28, 33, 39, 41, 44, 47). Notably, the yields of
products appeared to be influenced by the electronic
nature of the aryl group, with electron-neutral or
electron-donating aryl iodides giving lower yields than
electron withdrawing aryl iodides (28–31, 33, 39, 41, 44,
47). Interestingly, the sterically hindered naphthyl aryl
iodine, 4-tert-butyliodobenzene and 4-iodobiphenyl
afforded the desired products in good yields
(32, 37, 38). We further investigated the reaction of
2-bromothiophene with methyl acrylate, affording 89%
yield of the desired product (36) in 36 hr. Excitingly,
the reaction of aryl bromides with olefins generate
products in over 62% yield (49, 50), highlighting the
applicability of the reaction protocol in aryl bromide.
We further investigated the substrate scope of various
aryl chlorides with olefins. Unfortunately, the reaction
does not work, which indicated that the activation of
aryl chlorides was less than that of aryl iodides and
bromides.[29]
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the reaction showed smooth reactivity at 80 C and gave
coupling product (26) and coupling product (27) in 50%
and 51% isolated yields, respectively. Indicated that aryl
chlorides were less active than aryl bromides, and their
reluctance to perform the oxidative addition to palladium
makes the coupling procedure very difficult.[31]
The recyclability of a catalyst is an important factor of
catalysis reactions. We explored the reusability of
pd-catalyst (Z4) by a simple filtration from the reaction
mixture. The catalyst showed excellent activity for 15 runs
with no appreciable change in the product yield (95–80%)
(See SI Figure S6). EDS determined the palladium ele-
ment of the Pd-catalyst (Z4) after 15 consecutive runs,
TABLE 1 Scope of the Suzuki reaction of aryl halogen with
arylboronic acids[a]
[a] Reaction conditions: r. t.; the Pd-catalyst (Z4) 0.25 mol%; 0.3 mmol of aryl
halide, 0.33 mmol of aryl boric acid, 0.6 mmol of K2CO3; 4 ml H2O, 9.2 mg
SDS; in air; 3 hr; Isolated yields; TON = (moles of product) / (moles of Pd in
the catalyst), TOF = TON/reaction time, [b] 80 ꢀC.