An amphiphilic resin-supported palladium catalyst for high-throughput cross-coupling in water

The Suzuki-Miyaura coupling of aryl halides (8 varieties) and aryl- or vinylboronic acids (12 varieties) took place in water in the presence of a palladium complex of an amphiphilic polystyrene-poly(ethylene glycol) copolymer resin-supported N-anchored 2-aza-1,3-bis(diphenylphosphino)propane ligand and potassium carbonate to give uniform and quantitative yields of the corresponding biaryls (96 varieties).