Palladium/Copper‐Catalyzed Decarboxylative Cross‐Coupling of Aryl Chlorides with Potassium Carboxylates

Even non-activated aryl chlorides undergo decarboxylative cross-coupling reactions in the presence of a catalyst system generated in situ from CuI, 1,10-phenanthroline, PdI2, and di(tert-butyl)biphenylphosphane. The new catalyst is useful for both the synthesis of biaryl compounds from aromatic carboxylates and the synthesis of aryl ketones from salts of α-ketocarboxylic acids (see scheme; FG=functional group; R=aryl, alkyl).