A palladium(II) complex, bis[1,3-bis-(2,4,6-trimethylbenzyl)benzimidazol-2 -ylidene]palladium(II) chloride, Pd(NHC), bearing N-heterocyclic carbenes has been synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, IR spectroscopy and H-1 and C-13 NMR spectroscopy. Crystal structure details of Pd(NHC) are also presented. The palladium centre in the complex lies on a crystallographic inversion centre and occupies a square-planar environment. with both chloride and N-heterocyclic carbene ligands adopting a trans arrangement with Cl-Pd-Cl and C-Pd-C angles are precisely 180 degrees. The palladium-carbene complex was tested as a catalyst in the Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reaction. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
C1 [Arslan, Hakan] Mersin Univ, Dept Chem, Fac Arts & Sci, TR-33343 Mersin, Turkey.
[Ozdemir, Ismail; Demir, Serpil] Inonu Univ, Dept Chem, Fac Sci & Arts, TR-44280 Malatya, Turkey.
[Arslan, Hakan] Fayetteville State Univ, Dept Nat Sci, Fayetteville, NC 28301 USA.
[VanDerveer, Don] Clemson Univ, Dept Chem, Clemson, SC 29634 USA.
[Cetinkaya, Bekir] Ege Univ, Fac Sci, Dept Chem, TR-35100 Bornova, Turkey.