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Mechanistic investigation demonstrates low-temperature carbon-chlorine bond activation in chloroarenes using bimetallic gold-palladium nanoclusters, highlighting novel pathways for aqueous coupling.
This paper describes the unique catalytic activity of bimetallic Au/Pd alloy nanoclusters (NCs) for Ullmann coupling of chloroarenes in aqueous media at low temperature. The corresponding reaction cannot be achieved by monometallic Au and Pd NCs as well as their physical mixtures. On the basis of quantum chemical calculation, it was found that the crucial step to govern the unusual catalytic activity of Au/Pd is the dissociative chemisorption of ArCl, which is unlikely in the monometallic Au and Pd NCs.
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