Five 1-alkyimidazoline (1-5) have been prepared and characterized by conventional spectroscopic methods and elemental analyses. New in situ generated palladium-imidazoline complexes were tested for catalytic activity in the Suzuki coupling reaction between phenylboronic acid and several aryl chlorides.
C1 Inonu Univ, Fac Sci & Art, Dept Chem, TR-44280 Malatya, Turkey.
Ege Univ, Dept Chem, Bornova, Turkey.