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5.2. The Suzuki Reactions of Aryl Bromides<br />

We also performed the Suzuki <strong>reaction</strong> of aryl bromides at very low catalyst<br />

concentrations <strong>in</strong> an aqueous solvent.<br />

5.2.1. The Optimization of Pd(NH3)4 2+ -Loaded NaY Type Zeolite<br />

Catalyzed Suzuki Reactions of 4-Bromoanisole with<br />

Phenylboronic Acid<br />

Initially, 4-bromoanisole (a deactivated aryl bromide) was chosen as the ma<strong>in</strong><br />

test substrate as it is usually difficult to be activated <strong>in</strong> <strong>cross</strong>-coupl<strong>in</strong>g <strong>reaction</strong>s. To<br />

determ<strong>in</strong>e the optimal conditions at 0.005% Pd concentration, various conditions on the<br />

Suzuki <strong>reaction</strong> were exam<strong>in</strong>ed.<br />

In previous studies, Pd-NaY zeolite displayed high activity for aryl bromides by<br />

us<strong>in</strong>g Na2CO3 as base <strong>in</strong> N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF)/water (1:1) solvent mixture at<br />

room temperature (Artok and Bulut 2004, Bulut et al. 2003). At the beg<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g our study<br />

for optimatization, we performed experiments under these optimized <strong>reaction</strong><br />

conditions.<br />

In the Suzuki <strong>reaction</strong>s experiments of aryl chlorides, we have observed<br />

phenylboronic acid reagents affected efficiency of the <strong>reaction</strong> and the Fluka reagent<br />

was the worst among them. In case of aryl bromides, different results were obta<strong>in</strong>ed.<br />

While the catalyst showed high activity <strong>in</strong> the presence of phenylboronic acid from<br />

Fluka (cat# 78181), the lowest product formation was obta<strong>in</strong>ed by us<strong>in</strong>g Aldrich reagent<br />

(cat# P2,000-9) (Table 5.7, entries 1, 2). We decided to use Fluka reagent of<br />

phenylboronic acid dur<strong>in</strong>g optimization of <strong>reaction</strong> conditions.<br />

Artok and Bulut observed that the Pd-NaY showed either no or poor activity <strong>in</strong><br />

the presence of bases such as sodium acetate, potassium phosphate, sodium fluoride etc.<br />

while carbonates bases worked best. They concluded that efficiency of <strong>reaction</strong> didn’t<br />

depend on basicity of bases (Artok and Bulut 2004, Bulut et al. 2003). That’s why, we<br />

screened only <strong>in</strong>expensive carbonate bases and among them, Na2CO3 was found to be<br />

effective (Table 5.7, entry 2). Moderate yields were obta<strong>in</strong>ed <strong>in</strong> the presence of Cs2CO3<br />

and K2CO3 (entry 3, 4).<br />

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