Pd nanoparticle catalysed one-pot sequential Heck and Suzuki couplings of bromo-chloroarenes in ionic liquids and water

Org Biomol Chem. 2012 Jan 28;10(4):808-13. doi: 10.1039/c1ob06385e. Epub 2011 Nov 28.

Abstract

Pd nanoparticles generated in green reaction media (viz. ionic liquids and water) catalyze the one-pot sequential Heck and Suzuki coupling reactions of bromo-chloroarenes to afford unsymmetrically substituted arenes in good yields.