Palladium, organo- compounds preparation

The preparation of organopalladium compounds by exchange reactions of palladium salts and organo-lead, -tin, or -mercury compounds is apparently not the only way that they can be obtained but it does seem to be the most useful way. Convincing evidence is now available to show that direct metalation of aromatic compounds with palladium salts (palladation) can occur. Since the initial report of Cope and Siekman 32> that palladium chloride reacted readily with azobenzene to form an isolable chelated, sigma-bonded arylpalladium compound, several additional chelated arylpalladium compounds have been prepared. 

When an organotin compound is the nucleophile, the coupling is called Stille coupling after J. K. Stille of Colorado State University, the inventor.26 In chapter 15 we saw how organo-tin compounds are sources of radicals, but with palladium catalysis the reaction changes. We shall start with an example which may look trivial but is very important for this chapter. Reaction of readily prepared 1,1-dibromoalkenes 184 with tributyltin hydride under Pd(0) catalysis gives Z-l-bromoalkenes 185 with high stereoselectivity.27... 

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