Centre for Analysis and Synthesis, Department of Chemistry, Lund University, P. O. Box 124, 221 00 Lund, Sweden
Abstract:
A new class of palladium complexes bearing bidentate 2-hydroxypyridine based ligands have been prepared and fully characterized. The applications of these new complexes towards ketone alkylation reactions with alcohols through a metal-ligand cooperative borrowing-hydrogen (BH) process were demonstrated.