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. 2014 Jul 15;9(9):2139–2148. doi: 10.1021/cb500443x

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Proposed mechanism for the palladium-mediated sequence-specific cross-coupling reaction. A possible stabilized R1–4/aryl–Pd complex is shown in which Phe-4 and Arg-8 of R1–4 are preorganized to facilitate alkyne deprotonation, the rate-limiting step in Cu-free Sonogashira cross-coupling.