Technical Notes:

1. Ligand/palladium catalyst for general Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling re actions.

2.Ligand/palladium catalyst for the Suzuki-Miyaura coupling of aryltrifluoroborates with aryl chlorides.

3.Ligand/palladium catalyst for the Suzuki-Miyaura reaction of heteroary halides and heteroary boronic avids and esters

4.Ligand/palladium catalyst for Kumada-corriu cross- coupling reaction

5. Ligand/palladium catalyst for the borylation of aryl halides with pinacol borane.

6. Suzuki couplings involving amino acids. Synthesis of biaryl derivatives of 4-hydroxyphenyl glycine, tyrosine and tryptophan.

7. Synthesis of substituted adamantylzinc reagents using Mg-insertion in the presence of zinc chloride

8.Highly efficient catalyst for the palladium catalyzed Suzuki-Miyura reaction of heteroary halides and heteroaryl boronic acids and esters.