Methyl Acrylate → 2-Propenoic acid, 3-phenyl-, methyl ester

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Starbon®-Pd(10% wt) was prepared according to example 39 and was tested in the Heck reaction of iodobenzene and methyl acrylate (see Reaction Scheme 7). Iodobenzene (8 mmol, 0.85 mL), methyl acrylate (8 mmol, 0.70 mL), triethylamine (5 mmol) and the Starbon-Pd catalyst (0.050 g) were mixed together in a microwave tube and placed in a Microwave reactor under stirring at 70° C. for 5 min. The microwave power employed in the reaction was 300 W. Dodecane (1 mmol) was employed as internal standard and results were analysed by GC. The Starbon-Pd material afforded complete (>99 mol %) conversion of the starting material with a selectivity higher than 80 mol % to the cross-coupled product, methyl cinnamate in 5 min.

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