“…Miyaura and co-workers reported asymmetric palladium(II) catalysed 1,4-addition reactions of triphenylbismuth to cyclic and acyclic enones, also in aqueous media, with enantiomeric excesses of up to 95% [19]. Further studies include the use of triphenylbismuth in the cross-coupling of aryl bromides and iodides [17,18,20,21,23], acyl chlorides [22,28], vinyl iodides [24], allyl acetates [26] and ␣-arylacetyl chlorides [25]. Wang and co-workers recently demonstrated the compatibility of bismuth reagents with the use of a heterogeneous catalytic system [32].…”