Paladium catalized cross-coupling reactions

Abstract

This year´s Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to the researchers Richard Heck (USA), Ei-Ichi Negishi(USA) and Akira Suzuki (Japan), for their valuable contributions to the development of a specific type of reaction for the formation of carbon-carbon bonds: “Palladium-catalyzed cross couplings”. The growing demand for new substances for drug development, materials and/or biologically active compounds has made this discovery an important tool for chemists, giving them the ability to meet these needs through the creation of complex molecules of industrial utility.