Transition metal-catalyzed cross coupling reactions of nitrogen nucleophiles with aryl halides has emerged as a powerful synthetic strategy that finds widespread applications in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals, natural products and conducting materials. 1 Typically, the classical methods for generating C–N bonds have been fuelled by either the copper-mediated 2 Ullmann reaction or the palladium-catayzed 3 Buchwald–Hartwig amination reaction. In the past decade, ...
