An oven-dried 25 ml pressure flask was charged in a glovebox with Pd2dba3 (457.9 mg, 0.5 mmol, 1.0 Pd eq.), PPh3 (629.5 mg, 2.4 mmol, 2.4 eq.), 2,6-dimethyliodobenzene (173 L, 1.2 mmol, 1.2 eq.), benzene (10 mL) and a stirbar. The flask was sealed, removed from the glovebox and the purple solution was stirred at 60 o C for 16 h yielding an orange solution with green insolubles. The mother liquor was removed and the insolubles dissolved in dry toluene (100 mL), then filtered to removed Pd black. The solvent was removed under reduced pressure, and then the solids washed with dry acetone until the washings ran clear. The product was recrystallized from DCM/acetone, yielding 14c as white crystals (624.5 mg, 0.724 mmol, 72.4 % wrt Pd).