Rapid one-pot synthesis of magnetically separable Fe3O4–Pd nanocatalysts: a highly reusable catalyst for the Suzuki–Miyaura coupling reaction

Heterogeneous catalysts comprising noble metals and magnetic materials allow a straightforward separation from a reaction using an external magnet and are recovered easily. In this study, we synthesized magnetic Fe3O4–Pdn hybrid heterogeneous catalysts via a rapid one-pot aqueous-phase method. The synthesized Fe3O4–Pd NPs dispersed well with small size (∼50 nm), maintaining high magnetic responsiveness, and showed high reactivity and reusability for the Suzuki–Miyaura coupling reaction between aryl halides and phenylboronic acid. The synthesized Fe3O4–Pd50 catalyst could be recycled at least ten times with no significant loss of catalytic activity by external magnet separation.