title: A pyridine-bridged bis-benzimidazolylidene pincer nickel(II) complex: synthesis and practical catalytic application towards Suzuki-Miyaura coupling with less-activated electrophiles.
abstract: A novel robust pyridine-bridged bis-benzimidazolylidene nickel pincer complex 3 accessible from inexpensive, commercially available precursors efficiently catalyzes the first practical Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reactions with various less-reactive electrophiles ArX (X = Br, Cl, OTs and OMs) and even tolerates electron-rich, sterically demanding and heterocyclic arenes in the presence of catalytic amounts of PPh(3).
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, 220 Handan Road, 200433 Shanghai, China. taotu@fudan.edu.cn
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tu
authors.forename: Han
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mao
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Herbert
authors.forename: Mizhi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Karl Heinz
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Dötz