The first report on the utility of an organotellurium compound as a stabilizer in the colloidal synthesis of a transition-metal-containing nanocatalytic system: application to O-arylation of phenol

Abstract

Organotellurium ligand (Octadecyl phenyl telluride) as stabilizer of palladium nanoparticles has been investigated and applied to the catalysis of O-arylation of phenols, even with aryl chlorides having deactivating substituents.