Carbonylative Hiyama coupling of aryl halides with arylsilanes under balloon pressure of CO

An efficient protocol has been developed for the carbonylative Hiyama coupling of aryl halides using the cesium fluoride as a promoter by palladium-catalyzed in NMP. This protocol was applied to a wide variety of functionalized and hindered aryl iodides and bromides with arylsilanes, to afford the desired biaryl ketones in good to excellent yields.70