Inside Cover: Asymmetric Suzuki–Miyaura Coupling Reactions Catalyzed by Chiral Palladium Nanoparticles at Room Temperature (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 36/2008)

Abstract

Chiral metal nanoparticles and their nanointerface have received little attention, but their properties are of great interest. In their Communication on page 6917 ff., H. Fujihara and co-workers describe that palladium nanoparticles [(1.6±0.2) nm] stabilized with chiral 2,2′-bis(diphenylphosphino)-1,1′-binaphthene (binap) ligands can efficiently catalyze asymmetric Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling reactions of naphthyl halides with naphthylboronic acid at room temperature with short reaction times.