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Cyclopalladated ferrocenylimines as efficient catalysts for homogeneous catalysis: A brief introduction to our preliminary achievements

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Cyclopalladated ferrocenylimines as a novel kind of highly efficient palladium catalyst precursors, which are air-stable and easy to handle, have been successfully applied in a wide variety of catalytic reactions ranging from classical reactions, such as Heck, Suzuki, Sonogashira and Buchwald-Hartwig couplings, to cyanation, addition reactions of arylboronic acids, and coupling reactions involving terminal alkynes. The preliminary achievements regarding their applications to homogeneous catalysis are concisely described herein.

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Wu, Y., Yang, F., Zhang, J. et al. Cyclopalladated ferrocenylimines as efficient catalysts for homogeneous catalysis: A brief introduction to our preliminary achievements. Chin. Sci. Bull. 55, 2784–2793 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-010-3126-3

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