. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 6.

Published in final edited form as: J Org Chem. 2013 Aug 13;78(17):8859–8864. doi: 10.1021/jo401249y

Table 2.

Scope of the coupling of aryl halides and triflates with 10 equiv nitromethane. graphic file with name nihms-513605-t0002.jpg

entry	yield (%)^a	entry	yield (%)^a
1	94	8	77
2	77	9	50^b
3	82	10	77^b
4	70	11	86
5	82	12	86
6	90	13	24
7	80

Yield after column chromatography.

5 mol% Pd₂dba₃, 12 mol% XPhos, 80 °C.