Affiliation: | a Department of Chemistry, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland b New address: School of Chemistry, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QD, UK |
Abstract: | An orthopalladated complex of commercially available tris(2,4-di-tert-butylphenyl)phosphite proves to be an extremely active catalyst in the Heck arylation of alkenes, with turnover numbers of up to 5,750,000 (mol product.mol Pd−1) and turnover frequencies of up to nearly 300,000 (mol product.mol Pd−1.h−1). |