Synfacts 2010(5): 0580-0580  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1219677
Metal-Mediated Synthesis
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A General Catalyst System for Amination of Aryl Chlorides

Contributor(s): Paul Knochel, Tobias Thaler
R. J. Lundgren, A. Sappong-Kumankumah, M. Stradiotto*
Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Publication History

Publication Date:
22 April 2010 (online)

Significance

Combinations of L1 or L2 with [Pd(allyl)Cl]2 or [Pd(cinnamyl)Cl]2 were found to be highly efficient and general catalyst systems for the Hartwig-Buchwald amination of (hetero)aryl chlorides. L1 and L2 are air-stable.