The Heck Reaction: A Microscale Synthesis Using a Palladium Catalyst

William B. Martin and Laura J. Kateley
Department of Chemistry, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL 60045
J. Chem. Educ., 2000, 77 (6), p 757
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p757
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 2000

Abstract

Palladium catalysts are central to a large variety of modern organic syntheses. Heck reactions use palladium acetate as the preferred precatalyst to effect vinylic substitutions involving haloarenes and haloalkenes. The microscale synthesis described uses a reaction between a bromoiodobenzene and acrylic acid to produce a bromocinnamic acid. Structure verification for the product uses IR and 1H NMR spectroscopy. This experiment is appropriate for a second-semester introductory organic chemistry laboratory or an intermediate-level organic synthesis laboratory. It could be adapted as a project for two or three students, with each member of the group preparing a different isomer or using a different catalyst source.

Keywords (Audience):

Second-Year Undergraduate

Keywords (Domain):

Organic Chemistry

Keywords (Feature):

The Microscale Laboratory

Keywords (Pedagogy):

Hands-On Learning / Manipulatives

Keywords (Subject):

Catalysis

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