“…Thus 1 has been shown to be superior in transition-metalcatalyzed cross-coupling reactions compared to the classical [Pd(Ph 3 P) 4 ] catalyst. [Pd(t-Bu 3 P) 2 ] is not only efficient for typical cross-coupling reactions, such as Stille, Negishi, Suzuki, Heck, Sonogashira, or Buchwald-Hartwig aminations, with electrophiles R-X (X = Cl, Br, I, OTf, SO 2 Cl and others), but also for cross-coupling of organolithium reagents, 1 alkenylgermanes, 2 alkali-metal silanolates, 3 triorgano-indium reagents 4 and others. Moreover, it has been used for arylations of hydro-siloxanes, 5 decarboxylative cross-coupling reactions, 6 carbonylations and amino-carbonylations, 7 carboiodinations, 8 C-H functionalizations, 9 cyanations, 10 methylenation of olefins 11 and annulation reactions.…”