“…One advantage of the Heck reaction is its trans selectivity. As catalysts, for example, phosphapalladacycles [13], various palladium(II)eacetate/phosphine systems [9], palladium nanoparticles [27], and N-heterocyclic carbene palladium complexes [11] have been applied. Within this work, complexes 6e, 6f, and 7aef were used in the coupling of iodo benzene with tertbutyl acrylate (Reaction 3) in a mixture of tolueneeacetonitrile (ratio 1:1, v:v) in presence of NEt i Pr 2 at 80 C with a catalyst loading of 0.5 mol% (Experimental Section, From Table 4 it can be seen that the catalyst featuring sterically demanding tolyl (7b) and mesityl phosphines (7c), or weekly sdonating furyl ligands (7d) are best suited for C,C couplings under the above mentioned conditions.…”