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NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY
Volume 42, Issue 6, Pages 4624-4630Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7nj04836j
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- Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province [LQ14B020003]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81571799, 81773193]
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Organic transformations using water as the solvent have been the focus of intense investigation. We herein present a strategy that uses simple nanoparticle encapsulation to fabricate water-soluble nanocatalysts (NCs) for aqueous cross-coupling reactions. To achieve this goal, three types of N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC)-palladium (Pd) complexes (i.e., 1b, 2b, and 3b) with the chemical formula [PdL(CH3CN)Cl]PF6 (where L is a bidentate pyridine- or pyrimidine-bearing NHC ligand) have been synthesized, and their structures were characterized by NMR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography. Exploiting a facile one-pot encapsulation process, the water-insoluble Pd-NHC complexes can be integrated into the hydrophobic cores of micelles composed of an amphiphilic copolymer. These water-dispersed nanoparticles exhibited excellent catalytic activity in aqueous Suzuki-Miyaura couplings. Among these NCs, 3b-NC, bearing a mesityl moiety on its NHC ligand, was found to be the most active catalyst under the tested reaction conditions. More impressively, 3b-NC can be reused for at least five cycles without substantial loss of catalytic activity.
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