Palladium particles from oxime-derived palladacycle supported on Fe3O4/oleic acid as a catalyst forthe copper-free Sonogashira cross-coupling reaction

An oxime-derived palladacycle was synthesized using4-bromobenzoxime and pyridine in CHCl3, and characterized by FT-IR and1H NMR spectroscopy. This Pd complex was supported on Fe3O4/oleic acid and shown to be an efficient catalyst for the copper-free Sonogashira cross-coupling reaction of various aryl halides with phenylacetylene in air and in ethanol or mixed aqueous medium. The oxime-derived palladacycle gave highly active palladium nanoparticles for the organicsynthesis. The coupling products were obtained in high yields with low Pd loading and theheterogeneous catalyst can be separated by an external magnet andreused six times without loss of its activity. The characterization of the catalyst wascarried out by XRD, SEM and TEM. Both TEM and XRD revealed that the palladium nanoparticles were well dispersed with diameters from 5 to 10 nm and average size 9.97 nm.