“…Therefore, to overcome the challenges mentioned above, Organ proposed another class of Pd-NHC complexes (Pd-NHC-PEPPSI, PEPPSI: pyridine-enhanced precatalyst preparation, stabilization and initiation) in 2006. [13] Since this pioneering study, NHC-Pd-PEPPSI-type complexes have been proven to be highly active precatalysts for a variety of cross-coupling reactions, such as SuzukiÀMiyaura, [14][15][16][17][18] Heck-Mizoroki, [17,[19][20][21] Negishi, [22,23] Sonogashira, [19,[24][25][26] Buchwald-Hartwig [27,28] and direct arylation reactions. [9,29,30] In one of the studies from our laboratory, we reported the preparation of a new type of bidentate N-heterocyclic carbene enolates (NHCE) and their palladium complexes via transmetallation of silver complexes.…”