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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Chem Soc. 2009 Jun 10;131(22):7858–7868. doi: 10.1021/ja901793w

Table 2.

Influence of the addition of bis(4-methoxyphenyl) disulfide in the reaction of Pd(CyPF-tBu)[S(C6H4-4-OMe)]2 with 4-chlorotoluene.

t (min) Conversion (%)[b]
[(SR)2] = 0 [(SR)2] = 0.022 M
560 17 5
1169 43 18
1500 57 25
[a]

Conditions: [Pd(CyPF-tBu)[S(C6H4-4-OMe)]2] = 2.6 × 10-2 M, [4-bromotoluene] = 1.4 M, 100 °C, toluene.

[b]

Determined by 31P{1H} NMR spectroscopy using PMes3 as internal standard.