Patent ID: 6867323

Claim:
A method for generating a carbon-carbon bond between a transferable group and an acceptor group which comprises the steps of: a. reacting a organosilicon reagent of the formula: where T is the transferable group that can be selected from an aromatic group, a substituted aromatic group, a heteroaromatic group, an olefinic group, a substituted olefinic group, an allylic group, a substituted allylic group, an acetylenic group, a substituted acetylenic group, an allenic group, a substituted allenic group, an alkyl group, and a substituted alkyl group; X is selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen, an alkyl group, a substituted alkyl group, an olefinic group, a substituted olefinic group, an acetylenic group, a substituted acetylenic group, an aromatic group, a substituted aromatic group, a heteroaromatic group, a halide, OR or N(R) 2 groups, where R is hydrogen, an alkyl group or a substituted alkyl group, and a silane or siloxane group; and R 1 and R 2 are, independently, selected from the group consisting of alkyl or substituted alkyl groups, a silane group or a siloxane group; and where dashed lines indicate that any two of R 1 , R 2 , T or X can be covalently linked and R 1 and R 2 can be a transferable group T; with an organic electrophile R 3 Y in the presence of a basic and nucleophilic activator anion and a Group 10 metal catalyst; and b. recovering the desired cross-coupling product T-R 3 in which the —C—C— bond is formed.