Advance on Applications of Microwave Technique in Palladium-Catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling Reaction

Compared with conventional heating, microwave heating is one of the most useful tools in organic synthesis because of its obviously advantages of fast heating, thermal efficiency, saving energy, clean, and easy operation. Palladium catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reaction could tolerate a broad range of functional groups with high stereoselectivity to provide a mild method in preparation of kinds of substituted biaryls. In this paper, the recent research results about the microwave technique applied in Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reaction are reviewed, involving various reaction systems. The applications of the methodology on the synthesis of natural products and bioactive molecules have also been introduced.