“…The following commercial reagents were used as received: trichloroethylene (C 2 HCl 3 , chemically pure, Component-Reactiv, Moscow, Russia); acetonitrile (CH 3 CN, chemically pure, Component-Reactiv, Moscow, Russia); PdCl 2 (pure, Aurat, Moscow, Russia); NaBH 4 (purity of 98 wt%, Chemical Line, Saint Petersburg, Russia); 1,2-dichlorobenzene (C 6 H 4 Cl 2 , purity of 99 wt%, Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO, USA); KOH (analytically pure, Reakhim, Moscow, Russia); and 2-propanol (CH 3 CH(OH)CH 3 , high purity grade, Baza No.1 Khimreactivov, Staraya Kupavna, Russia). Microdispersed Ni-catalyst was synthesized as described elsewhere [ 37 ].…”