The palladium and copper contrast: a twist to products of different chemotypes and altered mechanistic pathways

A novel contrast in palladium and copper catalysis is revealed to form products of different chemotypes resulting in a phenazine to azoarene twist through an altered mechanistic pathway (from non-radical C-H activation mode of C-N coupling to radical N-N coupling) during the oxidative self-coupling of anilines catalysed by Pd-Ag and Cu-Ag nanoclusters.