Technical Notes:

1.Efficient catalyst for the arylation of olefins (Heck reaction).

2.Catalyst for cross -coupling reactions .

3.Catalyst for C-H activation.

4. Precatalyst for enantioselective decarboxylative protonation of allyl ß-ketoesters.

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