1 Department of Chemistry, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN19QJ, UK. G.Kostakis@sussex.ac.uk.
2 Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany. Annie.powell@kit.edu.
3 Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany. Annie.powell@kit.edu and Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Postfach 3640, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany.
The air-stable tetranuclear coordination cluster [CuDyL4(NO3)2(CH3CN)2]·2(CH3CN), which can be obtained in high yield, promotes the Suzuki coupling reaction of phenylboronic acid with substituted aryl halides under environmentally benign conditions.