D. Badone et al., HIGHLY EFFICIENT PALLADIUM-CATALYZED BORONIC ACID COUPLING REACTIONS IN WATER - SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS, Journal of organic chemistry, 62(21), 1997, pp. 7170-7173
The ''ligandless'' palladium acetate-catalyzed Suzuki cross-coupling r
eaction of ArX with aryl-and vinylboronic acids in water without organ
ic cosolvent in the presence of tetrabutylammonium bromide is reported
. Aryl bromides give high yields and considerably accelerate the coupl
ing, A wide variety of functional groups can be tolerated. Aryl iodide
s, however, give. incomplete conversion and aryl triflate coupling sho
ws no improvement over reported conditions.