Highly effective microwave-assisted palladium-catalyzed arylation of styrenes and alkenes with diaryliodonium salts have been developed, giving styrenes in high yields without ligand in 60 s.
Keywords: Alkene, diaryliodonium salts, microwave-assisted, palladium-catalyzed, styrene, Heck reaction, base, heterocyclic, iodobenzene, Schlenk tube