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A ligand-free coupling of aryl bromides or chlorides with arylboronic acids is developed using the ionic liquid GIL5 as an additive forming nanometric palladium micelles.

A novel 20-membered ring channel aluminophosphate has been discovered; its synthesis and characterization are reported.

Cancrinite, a low-silica zeolite synthesized in a non-aqueous butane-1,3-diol system, can adsorb water, hexane or cyclohexane, unlike the cancrinite synthesized in aqueous media.

An aluminophosphate molecule sieve (AlPO4-17) has been synthesised from a non-aqueous system in the presence of methylamine as a templating agent ad has been characterized by means of X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), (IR), differential thermal analysis (DTA) and thermogravimetric analysis (TG).

A highly efficient Pd(OAc)2/guanidine aqueous system for the room temperature Suzuki cross-coupling reaction has been developed. The new water-soluble and air-stable catalyst Pd(OAc)2·(1f)2 from Pd(OAc)2 and 1,1,3,3-tetramethyl-2-n-butylguanidine (1f) was synthesized and characterized by X-ray crystallography. In the presence of Pd(OAc)2·(1f)2, coupling of arylboronic acids with a wide range of aryl halides, including aryl iodides, aryl bromides, even activated aryl chlorides, was carried out smoothly in aqueous solvent to afford the cross-coupling products in good to excellent yields and high turnover numbers (TONs) (TONs up to 850 000 for the reaction of 1-iodo-4-nitrobenzene and phenylboronic acid). Furthermore, this mild protocol could tolerate a broad range of functional groups.