Competitive and Selective Csp3Br versus Csp2Br Bond Activation in Palladium-Catalysed Suzuki Cross-Coupling: An Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Role of Phosphine Ligands
hindered phosphineligands such as P(o‐tol)3 and P(1‐naphthyl)3 reversed the selectivity, conducting the cross‐coupling at the Csp2‐Br. Identical trends were observed in external competition experiments carried out with bromomethyl sulfoxide and different substituted bromoarenes. DFT and DFT/MM calculations showed that the selectivity observed is mainly due to the different facility of the ligands to dissociate