Aldehydes zinc-mediated arylation

Scheme 8.1 Zinc-mediated asymmetric arylation of aldehydes.

BINOL-derived phosphoramidites are versatile ligands in palladium-catalysed umpol-ung allylation of aryl aldehydes mediated by diethylzinc.172 The possible roles of allyl-zinc and -palladium species in the mechanism are discussed in detail. 

DiaryImethanols. Zinc in combination with the (dppe)NiBr2 complex mediates the reaction between aryl bromides and aromatic aldehydes. This process tolerates functional groups such as ketone, ester, amide, and nitrile. 

Cheng has published a convenient and synthetically useful alternative method to the NHK reaction for the arylation of aromatic aldehydes in a mild and selective way with nickel(ll) bromide/zinc/dppe mediated protocol for the synthesis of diaryl carbinols. Durandetti reported an electrochemical coupling of aryl halides with aldehydes for the synthesis of diaryl carbinols which was catalytic in chromium and nickel salts. Comins utilized the NHK reaction to prepare 5-(l-hydroxyalkyl)-2,3-dihydro-4-pyridones, which were then explored in reductive, oxidative and substitutive reactions. " The first asymmetric catalytic synthesis of 5y -alk-l-ene-3,4-diols was developed the regio-, diastereo- and enantioselective addition of 3-chloropropenyl pivaloate to aldehydes was made possible by exploiting Salen r(II) species in a catalytic version of the NHK reaction. ... 

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