recent advances in noble metal nanocatalysts for suzuki and heck cross-coupling reactions最新进展在贵金属nanocatalysts铃木和交叉耦合反应.pdfVIP

Molecules 2010, 15, 2124-2138; doi:10.3390/molecule OPEN ACCESS molecules ISSN 1420–3049 /journal/molecules Review Recent Advances in Noble Metal Nanocatalysts for Suzuki and Heck Cross-Coupling Reactions Radha Narayanan Department of Chemistry, University of Rhode Island, 51 Lower College Road, Kingston, RI 02881, USA; E–Mail: rnarayanan@; Tel.: +1-401–874–2298; Fax: +1-401–874–5072. Received: 12 January 2010; in revised form: 2 March 2010 / Accepted: 23 March 2010 / Published: 25 March 2010 Abstract: Since metal nanoparticles have a high surface-to-volume ratio and very active surface atoms, they are very attractive catalysts for a wide variety of organic and inorganic reactions, compared to bulk catalysts. Metal nanoparticles suspended in colloidal solutions and those adsorbed onto bulk supports have been used as catalysts for a wide variety of carbon-carbon bond formation reactions such as the Suzuki and Heck cross-coupling reactions. This review article highlights some of the latest advances in the application of noble metal nanoparticles as catalysts for these two industrially important classes of cross- coupling reactions. We will discuss several important advances in using metal nanocatalysts in Suzuki and Heck cross-coupling reactions such as investigations on the nanoparticle shape dependence on the catalytic activity, novel types of supported metal nanoparticles as nanocatalysts, and the use of bi-meta