Pyrimidyl formamidine palladium(II) complex as a nanocatalyst for aqueous Suzuki-Miyaura coupling
Afaf Y. Khormi,
Thoraya. A. Farghaly,
Mohamed R. Shaaban
Affiliations
Afaf Y. Khormi
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Science, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah Almukaramah, Saudi Arabia
Thoraya. A. Farghaly
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Science, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah Almukaramah, Saudi Arabia; Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza 12613, Egypt
Mohamed R. Shaaban
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Science, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah Almukaramah, Saudi Arabia; Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza 12613, Egypt; Corresponding author.
Synthesis of a new phosphene-free nano-size formamidine-based palladium complex have been achieved. The molecular structure of novel palladium complex have been confirmed using spectroscopic methods of analysis as well as physical characterizations. The synthesized complex has been used as a catalyst for microwave assisted aqueous Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-coupling (SMC) of aryl bromides with phenylboronic acid. The formamidine-based Pd(II)-complex exhibited excellent catalytic activity to obtain biaryls using mild reaction conditions.
