Abstract
In the present work, a novel binuclear benzothiazole-oxime Pd(II) complex was synthesized, characterized (elemental analysis, infrared spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis, ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance, and conductance measurements), and explored for its catalytic activity in Suzuki-Miyaura and Heck-Mizoroki cross-coupling reactions of different aryl- and heteroaryl halides with arylboronic acids and styrene, respectively, using the microwave irradiation conditions. The electronic arrangement, type of hybridization, and nature of bonding in the Pd-complex were investigated by natural bond orbital analysis. Time-dependent density functional theory calculations were carried out to understand the electronic transitions in the related experimental observations.
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