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D-Glucosamine as an efficient and green additive for palladium-catalyzed Heck reaction

Mojtaba Amini and Hossein Etemadi

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Maragheh, P.O. Box 55181-83111731, Maragheh, Iran

E-mail: mamini@maragheh.ac.ir

Abstract: The Heck coupling of haloarenes with various alkenes was successfully performed in the presence of 0.5 mole % Pd(OAc)₂ and 1.0 mole %

Keywords: d-glucosamine – Pd(OAc)2 – Heck reaction – aqueous medium

Full paper is available at www.springerlink.com.

DOI: 10.2478/s11696-013-0367-z

Chemical Papers 67 (7) 759–763 (2013)