The use of palladium chloride as a precatalyst for the amination of aryl bromides

Xiao-Xiang Zhang, Michele C. Harris, Joseph P. Sadighi, Stephen L. Buchwald
2001 Canadian journal of chemistry (Print)  
The use of palladium chloride as a precatalyst for the amination of aryl bromides is reported. To overcome the poor solubility of palladium chloride in commonly used solvents, a procedure was developed in which PdCl 2 was preheated with neat amine in the presence of a phosphine ligand before the addition of the other reaction components. This protocol is effective for a broad range of substrate combinations using several types of phosphine ligands.
doi:10.1139/cjc-79-11-1799 fatcat:3l5kwv7gafcorfgflx47mielmu