. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jul 9.

Published in final edited form as: J Am Chem Soc. 2007 Nov 8;129(48):14860–14861. doi: 10.1021/ja077070r

Table 2.

Decarboxylative Coupling of Substituted Nitrophenylacetic Esters^a

Entry	Substrate	Product	Yield 2 (%)
1			86
2			85
3			77
4			94
5^b			<5
6			77
7			96
8			94

0.3 mmol substrate, 0.0075 mmol Pd₂dba₃, 0.015 mol rac-BINAP, 3 mL toluene, 110 °C, 1–3 hrs.

Pd(PPh₃)₄ as catalyst