Technical Notes:

1. Ligand for Pd-catalyzed cross- coupling.

2. Useful ligand for Pd-catalyzed carbon-nitrogen and carbon-oxygen bond forming procedures.

3.Ligand for Ni-catalyzed amination of aryl chlorides

4.Ligand for Pd-catalyzed conversion of aryl halides to aryl nitriles .

5.Ligand for Ni-catalyzed Suzuki reactions.

6.Ni-catalyzed hydroamination of 1,3-dienes.

7.Pd-catalyzed hydrocarbonation and hydroamination of 3,3-dihexylcyclopropene.

8. Pd-catalyzed y-arylation of ß,y-unsaturated ketones .

9. L igand for Ru-catalyzed reduction of nitriles to primary amines.

10. Ligand for Rh-catalyzed alkyne head-to-tail dimerization.

11.Ligand for Rh-catalyzed cross-coupling (Ref.

12.Ligand for Rh-catalyzed olefin isomerization (Ref. 22).

13Ligand for Ni or Rh-catalyzed borylation (Ref. 23, 24)

14. Ligand for regioselective Pd-catalyzed hydrophosphinylation of terminal alkynes to form branched alkenes.