A new robust methodology for gram-scale iron-catalyzed cross-coupling between alkyl Grignard reagents and alkenyl or aryl halides is developed. This method does not require toxic additives such as NMP or expensive ligands. Its efficiency relies on the use of simple alkoxide magnesium salts as additives. On the basis of these results, a new procedure for one-pot synthesis of substituted benzamides from
The cross-coupling of aryl arenesulfonates with dialkoxyboranes proceeded in the presence of Bu4NI and a catalytic amount of [Pd(dba)2]/1,1′-bis(di-tert-butylphosphano)ferrocene, giving good yields...