title: Opening an Aladdin's cave: the Suzuki coupling in a room-temperature ionic liquid.
abstract: This viewpoint will discuss the impact of the 2000 Chem. Commun. report that the palladium-catalysed Suzuki coupling can be performed quickly and easily in a room-temperature ionic liquid. This work has helped fuel what have now become whole areas of chemistry of their own: the use of ionic liquids as reaction media for catalytic transformations, and the application of palladium complexes bearing N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands in the Suzuki coupling and beyond.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, 55 N. Eagleville Road, Storrs, CT 06269, USA. nicholas.leadbeater@uconn.edu.
authors.forename: Nicholas E
authors.initials: NE
authors.lastname: Leadbeater