1. Its catalytic performance for Heck arylation of acrylic acid with iodobenzene shows that the catalyst has high catalytic activity and regioselectivity for the synthesis of trans-phenylacrylic acid.

2. In this paper, we investigated the arylation reaction ofp-amino acetylbenzene with ferrocene catalyzed by phase transfer catalyst.

3. The result shows that, under this catalytic reaction, the Heck arylation of iodobenzene with acrylic acid has a good stereoselectivity and only trans-cinnamic acid is produced.

4. The report includes the first examples of N -oxide arylation with equimolar ratios of the two coupling partners.

5. Advances in the transition - metal catalyzed α - arylation of carbonyl derivatives and compounds with acidic hydrogen are reviewed.