Tris(dibenzylideneacetone)dipalladium(0) or
2(dba)3">d2(dba)3is an
organopalladium compound. The compound is a complex of
palladium
Palladium is a chemical element with the symbol Pd and atomic number 46. It is a rare and lustrous silvery-white metal discovered in 1803 by the English chemist William Hyde Wollaston. He named it after the asteroid Pallas, which was itself ...
(0) with
dibenzylideneacetone (dba). It is a dark-purple/brown solid, which is modestly soluble in organic solvents. Because the dba ligands are easily displaced, the complex is used as a
homogeneous catalyst
In chemistry, homogeneous catalysis is catalysis by a soluble catalyst in a solution. Homogeneous catalysis refers to reactions where the catalyst is in the same phase as the reactants, principally in solution. In contrast, heterogeneous catalysis ...
in
organic synthesis
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Preparation and structure
First reported in 1970, it is prepared from dibenzylideneacetone and sodium tetrachloropalladate. Because it is commonly recrystallized from chloroform, the complex is often supplied as the adduct 2(dba)3·CHCl3">d2(dba)3·CHCl3[Jiro Tsuji and Ian J. S. Fairlamb "Tris(dibenzylideneacetone)dipalladium–Chloroform" E-EROS, 2008. ] The purity of samples can be variable.
In 2(dba)3">d2(dba)3 the pair of Pd atoms are separated by 320 pm but are tied together by dba units. The Pd(0) centres are bound to the alkene parts of the dba ligand
In coordination chemistry, a ligand is an ion or molecule ( functional group) that binds to a central metal atom to form a coordination complex. The bonding with the metal generally involves formal donation of one or more of the ligand's ele ...
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Applications
2(dba)3">d2(dba)3is used as a source of soluble Pd(0), in particular as a catalyst
Catalysis () is the process of increasing the rate of a chemical reaction by adding a substance known as a catalyst (). Catalysts are not consumed in the reaction and remain unchanged after it. If the reaction is rapid and the catalyst recy ...
for various coupling reactions. Examples of reactions using this reagent are the Negishi coupling, Suzuki coupling
The Suzuki reaction is an organic reaction, classified as a cross-coupling reaction, where the coupling partners are a boronic acid and an organohalide and the catalyst is a palladium(0) complex. It was first published in 1979 by Akira Suzuki, ...
, Carroll rearrangement, and Trost asymmetric allylic alkylation, as well as Buchwald–Hartwig amination.
Related Pd(0) complexes are 2">d(dba)2ref>John R. Stille, F. Christopher Pigge, Christopher S. Regens, Ke Chen, Adrian Ortiz and Martin D. Eastgate "Bis(dibenzylideneacetone)palladium(0)"
E-eros. 2013. and
tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)palladium(0)
Tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)palladium(0) (sometimes called quatrotriphenylphosphine palladium) is the chemical compound d(P(C6H5)3)4 often abbreviated Pd( PPh3)4, or rarely PdP4. It is a bright yellow crystalline solid that becomes brown upon de ...
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References
{{Palladium compounds
Catalysts
Organopalladium compounds