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The type of other organic co-solvent was <strong>in</strong>vestigated <strong>in</strong> the organic solvent-<br />

water mixture <strong>in</strong> the ratio of 1:1. N,N-dimethylacetamide (DMA) resulted <strong>in</strong> the highest<br />

product formation (entry 6), while the use of N-methylpyrolidone (NMP) with water<br />

gave a slightly lower coupled product yield (entry 5). It was reported by Artok and<br />

Bulut that amides acted as ligands to activate the <strong>palladium</strong> species. In the view of these<br />

results, DMA was chosen as organic solvent.<br />

Another crucial factor for the efficiency of their action was the DMA/water<br />

ratio. It is apparent that the <strong>reaction</strong> is tolerable to one higher ratio DMA/water (Table<br />

5.7, entries 7, 8). However, the ratio of 1/1 was the optimum for the <strong>reaction</strong> (entry 6).<br />

It was observed <strong>in</strong> the Suzuki <strong>reaction</strong> of aryl chlorides that extra amount of<br />

zeolite <strong>in</strong>creased product formation. The <strong>reaction</strong> was performed with the addition of 1g<br />

of zeolite <strong>in</strong> as-received form under def<strong>in</strong>ed f<strong>in</strong>al conditions and 1g of zeolite was<br />

useful for the product formation under <strong>in</strong>ert atmosphere (Table 5.7, entry 10).<br />

All the experiments mentioned above were conducted under <strong>in</strong>ert atmosphere.<br />

When the <strong>reaction</strong> was carried out under air, the catalyst also successfully activated the<br />

<strong>reaction</strong>, result<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> the highest yield of 4-methoxybiphenyl as coupl<strong>in</strong>g product (Table<br />

5.7, entry 11).<br />

To control whether the addition of extra amount of zeolite was useful or not<br />

under f<strong>in</strong>al conditions (Na2CO3 , DMA/H2O(1:1), under air, at 100 °C), we performed<br />

<strong>reaction</strong> without extra amount of zeolite, result<strong>in</strong>g slightly lower product formation<br />

(Table 5.7, entry 12). It was <strong>in</strong>dicated that there was useful effects of zeolite for Suzuki<br />

<strong>reaction</strong>s.<br />

Under optimized conditions, we tested effect of phenylboronic acid reagent from<br />

Merck (cat # 820131). The yield and <strong>reaction</strong> time were nearly same with that of Fluka<br />

reagent (Table 5.7, entry 13). However, we also observed that the Suzuki <strong>reaction</strong> of 4bromobenzonitrile<br />

was complete <strong>in</strong> shorter time when the Fluka reagent was used.<br />

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