Abstract
An efficient heterogeneous palladium(0)-catalysed cross-coupling of 1-bromoalkynes with terminal alkynes was achieved in DMF at room temperature in the presence of 5 mol% of MCM-41-immobilised bidentate phosphine palladium(0) complex [MCM-41-2P-Pd(0)] and 2 mol% of CuI with Et3N as base, yielding a variety of unsymmetrical 1,3-diynes in moderate to good yields. This heterogeneous palladium(0) complex could be easily recovered by a simple filtration of the reaction solution and recycled at least seven times without significant decrease in activity.
