A highly selective oxidative heterocoupling protocol for (hetero)aryl boronic acids with an active palladium colloidal catalyst was developed. The judicious choice of electronically different aryl boronic acids made possible such couplings under mild conditions, with air as oxidant, while embracing a wide substrate scope. This successful approach further allowed the development of a unique one-pot sequential oxidative heterocoupling/Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling tandem process for accessing substituted terphenyls.
Keywords: boronic acids; heterocoupling; one-pot synthesis; palladium colloids; tandem reactions.
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