An Improved Method for the Palladium-Catalyzed Amination of Aryl Iodides
“An Improved Method for the Palladium-Catalyzed Amination of Aryl Iodides”, J. Org. Chem., 2001, 66(8), 2560-2565.
Aryl iodides are coupled with amines to give the corresponding arylamines in high yield in the presence of palladium, a suitable ligand, and NaOt-Bu. Functionalized aryl iodides give good yields of the corresponding arylamines when Cs2CO3 is substituted as the base.