Bao Yong-Sheng, Wang Lil, Jia Meilin, Xu Aiju, Agula Bao, Baiyin Menghe, ZhaorigetuBao

GREEN CHEMISTRY Volume18 , Issue 13, 2016, Pages ‏ 3808-3814 ‏

Catalyzed by supported palladium nanoparticles, a decarbonylative amidation reaction between various aryl esters and formamides by C-O bond activation has been developed for the synthesis of amides. The catalyst can be reused and shows high activity after five cycles. The XPS analysis of the catalyst before and after the reaction suggested that the reaction might be performed via a Pd-0/Pd-II/Pd-IV catalytic cycle that began with Pd-0. The hot filtration test strongly suggests that the present reaction would proceed in a heterogeneous manner.