Palladacycles

Jairton Dupont is Professor at the Institute of Chemistry in Porto Alegre. His research interests are organometallic chemistry, catalysis and ionic liquids. He is author of more than 120 publications, 7 patents and several book chapters. Jairton Dupont has received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Forschungspreis of the Humboldt Foundation, the Simao Mathias Medal and the FAPERGS Award in Chemistry. Michel Pfeffer is Directeur de Recherche at the University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg and he is working on organic synthesis mediated and catalysed by transition metals (CH activation, C-C bond forming processes and more). He authored more than 160 publications and has received the Bronze Medal of the CNRS.

Introduction
Synthesis via C-H Bond Activation
Synthesis via Oxidative Addition and Transmetallation
Synthesis via other synthetic solutions
Stoichiometric reactions at the Pd-C bond and the palladium centre: Reactivity of the Pd-C unit with small molecules, e.g. alkynes, alkenes, allenes, CO, CNR, etc?
Stoichiometric reactions at the Pd-C bond and the palladium centre: Applications to organic synthesis
Stoichiometric reactions at the Pd-C bond and the palladium centre:. Cyclopalladated compounds as resolving agents for racemic mixtures of ligands
Application of cyclopalladated compounds as Catalysts for Heck and Sonogashira reactions
Application of cyclopalladated compounds as Catalysts Suzuki and C-N coupling
Application of cyclopalladated compounds as catalysts for other reactions (aldol condensations, allylic alkylations, oxidations, etc?)
Cyclopalladated Liquid Crystals
Photo physical properties of cyclopalladated compounds
Cyclopalladated compounds in biomedical applications
Thermomorphic cyclopalladated compounds
Dendrimeric cyclopalladated compounds

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