title: Synthesis of palladacycles employing iminoisoindolines as monoanionic bidentate ligands.
abstract: A series of air- and moisture-stable iminoisoindoline-based palladacycles have been prepared in two operationally simple steps from commercially available reagents. para-Substituted N,N'-diphenyliminoisoindoline ligands are easily synthesized from phthalaldehyde and para-substituted anilines and further reaction of the iminoisoindoline ligands with Pd(OAc)(2) in dichloromethane at room temperature results in formation of six-membered [C,N] dinuclear cyclopalladated complexes with the general formula [(iminoisoindoline)Pd(micro-OAc)](2). The resulting palladacyclic complexes were tested as precatalysts in Heck and Suzuki coupling reactions.
authors.affiliation: University of Saskatchewan, Department of Chemistry, 110 Science Place, S7N 5C9, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
authors.forename: Jackson M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Chitanda
authors.forename: Demyan E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Prokopchuk
authors.forename: J Wilson
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Quail
authors.forename: Stephen R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Foley