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Keywords:

  • asymmetric catalysis;
  • cross-coupling;
  • nanostructures;
  • P ligands;
  • palladium
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Similar but different: Chiral mono- and bisphosphine ligands have been used to prepare chiral stabilized palladium nanoparticles (Pd NPs). Despite the chiral Pd NPs having similar diameters of 1.2–1.7 nm, they show very different catalytic activities and enantioselectivities in the room-temperature asymmetric Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling reactions of aryl halides with aryl boronic acids (see picture).