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Amination of aryl chlorides in water catalyzed by cyclopalladated ferrocenylimine complexes with commercially available monophosphinobiaryl ligands

C Xu, JF Gong, YJ Wu

Index: Xu, Chen; Gong, Jun-Fang; Wu, Yang-Jie Tetrahedron Letters, 2007 , vol. 48, # 9 p. 1619 - 1623

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Abstract

The easily accessible, air-and moisture-stable cyclopalladated ferrocenylimine complex 3 was found to be a highly active one-component precatalyst for the amination of aryl chlorides in water in the presence of inexpensive KOH and t-BuOH as a base and an additive, respectively.