This invention relates to compounds for the inhibition of histone deacetylase. More particularly, the invention provides for compounds of formula compounds of the Formula (I)
and N-oxides, hydrates, solvates, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, prodrugs and complexes thereof, and racemic and scalemic mixtures, diastereomers and enantiomers thereof, wherein groups L, M, X and Y are as defined herein.
Computational, spectroscopic, X‐ray, and reactivity data support dinuclear PdI catalysis to be operative. Contrary to air‐sensitive Pd0, the active PdI species was easily recovered in the open atmosphere and subjected to multiple rounds of recycling.