title: Robust acenaphthoimidazolylidene palladium complexes: highly efficient catalysts for Suzuki-Miyaura couplings with sterically hindered substrates.
abstract: Robust acenaphthoimidazolylidene palladium complexes have been demonstrated as highly efficient and general catalysts for the sterically hindered Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reactions in excellent yields even with low catalyst loadings under mild reaction conditions. The high catalytic activity of these complexes highlights that, besides the "flexible steric bulky" concept, σ-donor properties of the NHC ligands are also crucial to accelerate the transformations.
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: Zheming
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Weiwei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Fang
authors.forename: Mizhi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Yunfei
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhou
mesh_terms: D002384:Catalysis; D008958:Models, Molecular; D015394:Molecular Structure; D009942:Organometallic Compounds / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry*; D010165:Palladium / Q000737:chemistry*; D011084:Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D009942:Organometallic Compounds; D011084:Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons; D010165:Palladium