Understanding the relative easiness of oxidative addition of aryl and alkyl halides to palladium(0)

Alireza Ariafard, Zhenyang Lin*

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Abstract

Density functional theory calculations were carried out to study the relative easiness of oxidative addition of aryl and alkyl halides to Pd(0). Kinetic but not thermodynamic factors were found to contribute to the better reactivity of aryl versus alkyl halides.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4030-4033
Number of pages4
JournalOrganometallics
Volume25
Issue number16
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 31 Jul 2006
Externally publishedYes

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