Abdol Reza Hajipour, Fatemeh Rafiee

2013/11/2

Organic Preparations and Procedures International

45

6

465-472

Taylor & Francis Group

Biaryls are used as building blocks for a wide range of herbicides, 1 pharmaceuticals, 2 
natural products, 3 biologically active compounds, 4 microelectrode array, 5 conducting 
polymers, and liquid crystal materials. 6 Suzuki cross-coupling of aryl halides with aryl 
boronic acids is one of the most versatile and utilized synthetic method for the construction of 
symmetric and unsymmetric biaryl compounds. 7–14 Palladium and its complexes are also 
efficient and active catalysts in cross-coupling reactions. 15–17 The major benefits of the ...