Vinyl triflates tetrakis palladium

A similar Suzuki cross-coupling reaction has also been employed by Gill and Lubell in a synthesis of an unsaturated kainoid analogue.50 Vinyl triflates 97 and 98 were cross-coupled with phenylboronic acid using tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)palladium(0) to give the corresponding coupled products 99 and 100 with high efficiencies (Scheme 42). 

Pale and coworkers provided the first example of combined desilylation/coupling catalytic for silver. They found that 1-trimethylsilyl-l-alkynes in the presence of tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)palladium, a silver(I) salt, and an activator (potassium carbonate in methanol, or TBAF-3H20) in DMF coupled with vinyl triflates and aryl iodides to give enynes good yields (Scheme 1.66).143,144 Although silver salt was not necessary for reaction when TBAF-3H20 was used for activation of the carbon-silicon bond, a small to significant improvement was observed for all reported... 

The Heck reaction (Mizoroki-Heck reaction) is the reaction of an unsaturated halide (or triflate) with an alkene and a strong base and palladium catalyst to form a substituted alkene [41, 42]. The reaction is performed in the presence of an organo-palladium catalyst. The halide or triflate is an aryl, benzyl, or vinyl compound, and the alkene contains at least one proton and is often electron deficient, such as acrylate ester or an acrylonitrile. The catalyst can be tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)palladium... 

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