Pd(quinoline-8-carboxylate)(2) as a low-priced, phosphine-free catalyst for Heck and Suzuki reactions.

N,O-Bidentate compounds were systematically evaluated as phosphine-free ligands for Pd-catalyzed C-C bond-formation reactions through kinetic measurements. Pd(quinoline-8-carboxylate)2 was identified as one of the most efficient, yet still low-priced, phosphine-free catalysts for Heck as well as Suzuki reactions of unactivated aryl bromides with high turnover numbers up to ca. 10,000.