Editorial Catalysts: Special Issue on Transition Metal Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions

Ioannis D Kostas

doi:10.3390/catal11040473

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Transition metal catalyzed cross-coupling reactions have proved to be powerful tools for carbon–carbon as well as carbon–heteroatom bond formation in the development of synthetic methodologies for applications ranging from pharmaceuticals to materials [...]

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Transition metal catalyzed cross-coupling reactions have proved to be powerful tools for carbon–carbon as well as carbon–heteroatom bond formation in the development of synthetic methodologies for applications ranging from pharmaceuticals to materials
Improvements in catalyst design are continually being made and have led to the use of milder conditions, immobilisation on solid supports, biphasic systems for ease of separation, more benign solvents, etc. Research in this area has led to a wide variety of very efficient and useful procedures which are most often known by the names of the scientists who pioneered their use, such as Suzuki–Miyaura, Mizoroki–Heck, Negishi, Sonogashira, Kumada-Tamao-Corriu, Migita–Kosugi–Stille, Tsuji–Trost, Buchwald–Hartwig [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]

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Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Transition metal catalyzed cross-coupling reactions have proved to be powerful tools for carbon–carbon as well as carbon–heteroatom bond formation in the development of synthetic methodologies for applications ranging from pharmaceuticals to materials. This Special Issue, consisting of two reviews and two articles, focuses on recent promising research and novel trends in the field of cross-coupling reactions employing a range of different catalysts.

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