Cyclopalladated ferrocenylimines as efficient catalysts for homogeneous catalysis: A brief introduction to our preliminary achievements

Cyclopalladated ferrocenylimines as a novel kind of highly efficient palladium catalyst precursors, which are air-stable and easy to handle, have been successfully applied in a wide variety of catalytic reactions ranging from classical reactions, such as Heck, Suzuki, Sonogashira and Buchwald-Hartwig couplings, to cyanation, addition reactions of arylboronic acids, and coupling reactions involving terminal alkynes. The preliminary achievements regarding their applications to homogeneous catalysis are concisely described herein.