Anna E. Allen and David W. C. MacMillan* J. Am. Chem. Soc., ASAP In the Buchwald lab here at MIT (of which I am a part), we use palladium catalysis to construct C-Z bonds, where X = C, O, N, halogen, etc.  One reaction developed in…

Distinguishing Between Pathways for Transmetalation in Suzuki-Miyaura Reactions Brad P. Carrow and John F. Hartwig* J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 2116. The Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reaction (Fig. 1) is definitely one of the most important reactions in synthetic chemistry, especially in industrial and medical settings.   So…