title: Cationic palladium(II)-catalyzed addition of arylboronic acids to nitriles. One-step synthesis of benzofurans from phenoxyacetonitriles.
abstract: [Structure: see text] A cationic palladium complex catalyzed addition of arylboronic acids to nitriles to yield aryl ketones with moderate to good yields was developed. A one-step synthesis of benzofurans from phenoxyacetonitriles under the catalysis of [(bpy)Pd+(micro-OH)]2(-OTf)2 or [(bpy)Pd2+(H2O)2](-OTf)2 was developed which showed that the cationic palladium catalyst is highly active for these addition reactions.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 354 Fenglin Lu, Shanghai 200032, China.
authors.forename: Baowei
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Xiyan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Lu