. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Dec 15.

Published in final edited form as: J Am Chem Soc. 2006 Dec 20;128(50):16384–16393. doi: 10.1021/ja063710z

Table 13.

^a The Effect of Solvents on the Cross-Coupling Reactions of Aryl Boronic Acid with Alkene in the Presence of Ligand


entry	solvent	yield (%)^b
entry	solvent	28	29	30
1	DMF	84	-	13
2	DMA	77	-	22
3	NMP	77	-	23
4	MeCN	63	-	37
5	THF	35	23	42

All reactions were carried out with phenylboronic acid (1 mmol), tert-butyl acrylate (1.5 mmol), 1,10-dimethylphenanthroline (5mol%), and Pd(OAc)₂ (5 mol%) in solvent (2.5 mL).

isolated yield.