Facile Synthesis of a High Performance NiPd@CMK-3 Nanocatalyst for Mild Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling Reactions

Highly dispersed nickel-palladium bimetallic nanoparticles (similar to 2nm) on ordered mesoporous carbon CMK-3 (NiPd@CMK-3) were simply prepared using a co-infiltration method of the metal salts. The nanoparticles were successfully applied to the mild Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reactions at 25 similar to 50 degrees C using 4-bromoanisole and phenylboronic acid, and showed excellent catalytic performance with the high activity (0.521x10(-3) mol(c).g(am)(-1).s(-1)) and productivity (69.1 g(p).g(cat)(-1).h(-1)).