A highly effective, easy to handle and environmentally benign process for palladium-mediated Suzuki cross-coupling is developed. The in situ prepared three-component system Pd(OAC)(2)-1,3bis(alkyl)imidazolinium chlorides (2a-f) and CS2CO3 catalyses quantitatively the Suzuki crosscoupling of deactivated aryl chlorides. Copyright (C) 2004 John Wiley Sons, Ltd.
C1 Inonu Univ, Fac Sci & Arts, Dept Chem, TR-44280 Malatya, Turkey.
Ege Univ, Dept Chem, TR-35100 Izmir, Turkey.