7r-Allylpalladium complexes

Insertion of one of two double bonds of butadiene into Pd—X forms substituted a 7r-allylpalladium complex 24 (see Chapter 3, Section 4). 

Formation of a Tr-allylpalladium complex 29 takes place by the oxidative addition of allylic compounds, typically allylic esters, to Pd(0). The rr-allylpal-ladium complex is a resonance form of ir-allylpalladium and a coordinated tt-bond. TT-Allylpalladium complex formation involves inversion of stereochemistry, and the attack of the soft carbon nucleophile on the 7r-allylpalladium complex is also inversion, resulting in overall retention of the stereochemistry. On the other hand, the attack of hard carbon nucleophiles is retention, and hence Overall inversion takes place by the reaction of the hard carbon nucleophiles. 

Alkenes coordinated by Pd(II) are attacked by carbon nucleophiles, and carbon-carbon bond formation takes place. The reaction of alkenes with carbon nucleophiles via 7r-allylpalladium complexes is treated in Section 3.1. 

TT-Aliylpalladium chloride reacts with a soft carbon nucleophile such as mal-onate and acetoacetate in DMSO as a coordinating solvent, and facile carbon-carbon bond formation takes place[l2,265], This reaction constitutes the basis of both stoichiometric and catalytic 7r-allylpalladium chemistry. Depending on the way in which 7r-allylpalladium complexes are prepared, the reaction becomes stoichiometric or catalytic. Preparation of the 7r-allylpalladium complexes 298 by the oxidative addition of Pd(0) to various allylic compounds (esters, carbonates etc.), and their reactions with nucleophiles, are catalytic, because Pd(0) is regenerated after the reaction with the nucleophile, and reacts again with allylic compounds. These catalytic reactions are treated in Chapter 4, Section 2. On the other hand, the preparation of the 7r-allyl complexes 299 from alkenes requires Pd(II) salts. The subsequent reaction with the nucleophile forms Pd(0). The whole process consumes Pd(ll), and ends as a stoichiometric process, because the in situ reoxidation of Pd(0) is hardly attainable. These stoichiometric reactions are treated in this section. 

The enamine 315 as a carbon nucleophile reacts with 7r-allylpalladium complexes to give allyl ketones after hydrolysis[265],... 

Treatment of 7r-allylpalladium chloride with CO in EtOH affords ethyl 3-butenoate (321)[284]., 3, y-Unsaturated esters, obtained by the carbonylation of TT-allylpalladium complexes, are reactive compounds for 7r-allyl complex formation and undergo further facile transformation via 7r-allylpalladium complex formation. For example, ethyl 3-butenoate (321) is easily converted into 1-carboethoxy-TT-allylpalladium chloride (322) by the treatment with Na PdCL in ethanol. Then the repeated carbonylation of the complex 322 gives ethyl 2-... 

When butadiene is treated with PdCU the l-chloromethyl-7r-allylpalladium complex 336 (X = Cl) is formed by the chloropalladation. In the presence of nucleophiles, the substituted 7r-methallylpalladium complex 336 (X = nucleophile) is formed(296-299]. In this way, the nucleophile can be introduced at the terminal carbon of conjugated diene systems. For example, a methoxy group is introduced at the terminal carbon of 3,7-dimethyl-I,3,6-octatriene to give 337 as expected, whereas myrcene (338) is converted into the tr-allyl complex 339 after the cyclization[288]. 

Reactions of Allylic Compounds via 7r-Allylpalladium Complexes Catalyzed by Pd(0)... 

When the 7r-allylpalladium complexes are formed by the reaction of aikenes with PdCU and react with nucleophiles, the whole reaction constitutes the stoichiometric functionalization of alkenes[4,5]. 

In addition, a catalytic version of Tt-allylpalladium chemistry has been devel-oped[6,7]. Formation of the Tr-allylpalladium complexes by the oxidative addition of various allylic compounds to Pd(0) and subsequent reaction of the complex with soft carbon nucleophiles are the basis of catalytic allylation. After the reaction, Pd(0) is reformed, and undergoes oxidative addition to the allylic compounds again, making the reaction catalytic.-In addition to the soft carbon nucleophiles, hard carbon nucleophiles of organometallic compounds of main group metals are allylated with 7r-allylpalladium complexes. The reaction proceeds via transmetallation. These catalytic reactions are treated in this chapter. 

The stereochemistry of the Pd-catalyzed allylation of nucleophiles has been studied extensively[5,l8-20]. In the first step, 7r-allylpalladium complex formation by the attack of Pd(0) on an allylic part proceeds by inversion (anti attack). Then subsequent reaction of soft carbon nucleophiles, N- and 0-nucleophiles proceeds by inversion to give 1. Thus overall retention is observed. On the other hand, the reaction of hard carbon nucleophiles of organometallic compounds proceeds via transmetallation, which affords 2 by retention, and reductive elimination affords the final product 3. Thus the overall inversion is observed in this case[21,22]. 

Based on the above-mentioned stereochemistry of the allylation reactions, nucleophiles have been classified into Nu (overall retention group) and Nu (overall inversion group) by the following experiments with the cyclic exo- and ent/n-acetales 12 and 13[25], No Pd-catalyzed reaction takes place with the exo-allylic acetate 12, because attack of Pd(0) from the rear side to form Tr-allyl-palladium is sterically difficult. On the other hand, smooth 7r-allylpalladium complex formation should take place with the endo-sWyWc acetate 13. The Nu -type nucleophiles must attack the 7r-allylic ligand from the endo side 14, namely tram to the exo-oriented Pd, but this is difficult. On the other hand, the attack of the Nu -type nucleophiles is directed to the Pd. and subsequent reductive elimination affords the exo products 15. Thus the allylation reaction of 13 takes place with the Nu nucleophiles (PhZnCl, formate, indenide anion) and no reaction with Nu nucleophiles (malonate. secondary amines, LiP(S)Ph2, cyclopentadienide anion). 

The reaction of the vinylcyclopropanedicarboxylate 301 with amines affords an allylic amine via the 7r-allylpalladium complex 302[50]. Similarly, three-membered ring A -tosyl-2-(l,3-butadienyl)aziridine (303) and the four-mem-bered ring azetidine 304 can be rearranged to the five- and six-membered ring unsaturated cyclic amines[183]. 

Allylic metal compounds useful for further transformations can be prepared by Pd-catalyzed reactions of allylic compounds with bimetallic reagents. By this transformation, umpolung of nucleophilic 7r-allylpalladium complexes to electrophilic allylmetal species can be accomplished. Transfer of an allyl moiety from Pd to Sn is a typical umpolung. 

The formation of 1-and 2-aIkenes can be understood by the following mechanism. In the presence of formate anion, the 7r-allylpalladium complex 572 is converted into the 7r-allylpalladium formate 573. The most interesting feature is the attack of the hydride from formate to the more substituted side of the (T-allylic system by the cyclic mechanism shown by 574 to form the 1-alkene 575[367]. The decarboxylation and hydride transfer should be a concerted... 

An active catalytic species in the dimerization reaction is Pd(0) complex, which forms the bis-7r-allylpalladium complex 3, The formation of 1,3,7-octa-triene (7) is understood by the elimination of/5-hydrogen from the intermediate complex 1 to give 4 and its reductive elimination. In telomer formation, a nucleophile reacts with butadiene to form the dimeric telomers in which the nucleophile is introduced mainly at the terminal position to form the 1-substituted 2,7-octadiene 5. As a minor product, the isomeric 3-substituted 1,7-octadiene 6 is formed[13,14]. The dimerization carried out in MeOD produces l-methoxy-6-deuterio-2,7-octadiene (10) as a main product 15]. This result suggests that the telomers are formed by the 1,6- and 3,6-additions of MeO and D to the intermediate complexes I and 2. 

As another route, formation of 1,3,7-octatriene (7) proceeds at higher temperature in the absence of nucleophiles by Pd-catalyzed elimination of acetic acid or phenol via a 7r-allylpalladium complex from their telo-mers[l4,17]. 

Another reaction occurs by the attack of a soft nucleophile at the central carbon to form the 7r-allylpalladium complex 7, which undergoes further reaction with the nucleophile typical of rr-allylpalladium complexes to form the alkene 8,... 

These cooligomerization reactions can be explained by the following mechanism. First, insertion of butadiene to palladium hydride gives the methyl-substituted 7r-allylpalladium complex 125. Subsequently, insertion of the olefin to the unsubstituted side of the 7r-allyl system and /3-elimination give the 1,4-hexadiene and palladium hydride ... 

Accordingly, chiral 7r-allylpalladium complex 204 was found to catalyze enantioselective allylation of imines with good to high selectivity (Equation (98)).4S7c 457e 457g 4S71... 

Both enantiomers of racemic 2-propenyl acetate can be formed from meso-type 7r-alkyl palladium intermediates by oxidative addition. 7r-Allylpalladium complexes with two alkyl substituents at the 1- and 3-positons are known to... 

On the other hand, the methoxyester results from MeOH attack on coordinated double bond, followed by methoxycarbonylation (Scheme 11). In both cases, the formation of 7r-allylpalladium complexes directs the regio-chemistry of the process. By optimizing the reaction conditions, it has been possible to obtain the unsaturated diester selectively. The latter compound is particularly important, since it can be easily transformed after hydrolysis and hydrogenation into adipic acid [52-54], Selective alkoxy-alkoxycarbonylation of 1,3-dienes has also been achieved [55]. 

The oxidative coupling of two molecules of butadiene with Pd(0) forms the bis-7r-allylpalladium complex 31, which is the resonance form of 2,5-divinyl-palladacyclopentane (30) formed by oxidative cyclization. 

The 7r-allylpalladium complexes formed from conjugated dienes are reactive and react further with a nucleophile to give the 1,4-difunctionalized products 340. Based on this reaction, various nucleophiles are introduced into conjugated dienes to form 1,4-difunctionalized 2-alkenes. Acetoxy, alkoxy, halo, and... 

Application of 7r-allylpalladium chemistry to organic synthesis has made remarkable progress[l]. As described in Chapter 3, Section 3,7r-allylpalladium complexes react with soft carbon nucleophiles such as malonates, /3-keto esters, and enamines in DMSO to form carbon-carbon bonds[2, 3], The characteristic feature of this reaction is that whereas organometallic reagents are considered to be nucleophilic and react with electrophiles, typically carbonyl compounds, 7r-allylpalladium complexes are electrophilic and react with nucleophiles such as active methylene compounds, and Pd(0) is formed after the reaction. 

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