Alkenes cross-dehydrogenative coupling

Prior to the concept of cross-dehydrogenative-coupling (CDC), Moritani and Fujiwara developed the oxidative formation of Heck-type reaction products directly from arenes and alkenes, instead of aryl halides and... 

Activation by rhodium complexes has been used to achieve direct exchange of ketone methyl or aryl groups with an aryl group on ArB(OH)2, selective C(CO)-C bond cleavage on reaction of ketones with water, oxidative acylation between secondary benzamides and aryl aldehydes with subsequent intramolecular cyclization to 3-hydroxyisoindolin-l-ones, " cross dehydrogenative coupling to form xanthones from 2-aryloxybenzaldehydes, and activation of the aldehydic C-H bond to achieve hydroacylation of unactivated alkenes by salicylaldehyde derivatives and of vinylsilane by benzaldehyde. ... 

Ruthenium- and rhodium-catalytic systems for the direct cross-dehydrogenative coupling (CDC) of acrylamides with electron-deficient alkenes forming (Z, )-dienamides using copper(II) acetate as the oxidant has been developed. Both methods exhibit wide functional group compatibility and substrate flexibility. It is proposed that the reaction is initiated by cyclometalation of acrylamide by amide-directing C-H bond activation. Coordination of the alkene to the metal centre, followed by insertion of the carbon-carbon double bond, forms a seven-membered ruthacycle or rhodacycle species. Subsequent -elimination occurs to afford the desired (Z, )-dienamide. A CDC between two heteroarenes is effected with copper(II) acetate in the absence... 

Summary Recent achievements in two catalytic reactions, i.e., silylative coupling and cross-metathesis of alkenes and dienes with vinyl-silicon compounds, which resulted in new synthetic routes to organosilicon molecular and macromolecular compounds are presented. The silylative coupling, also called dehydrogenative or trans-silylation and silyl group transfer, is catalyzed by metal complexes which either contain or initiate the formation of M-H and M-Si bonds, where M = Ru, Rh, Co and Ir. Cross-metathesis, which was developed very recently, proceeds in the presence of metallacarbenes, mainly those of rathenium (e.g., Grabbs catalyst). 

Two new catalytic reactions occurring between the same parent substances have been developed since 1984, i.e. the silylative coupling (dehydrogenative or trans-silylalion, silyl group transfer) and cross-metathesis of alkenes with vinylsilicon compounds. They make it possible to synthesize molecular and macromolecular compounds with vinylsilicon functionality. 

Cp Rh-catalyzed dehydrogenative cross-couplings of Csp C—H positions with alkenes, alkynes, and arenes 12AA31. 

Abstract The selective catalytic activation/functionalization of sp C-H bonds is expected to improve synthesis methods by better step number and atom economy. This chapter describes the recent achievements of ruthenium(II) catalysed transformations of sp C-H bonds for cross-coupled C-C bond formation. First arylation and heteroarylation with aromatic halides of a variety of (hetero)arenes, that are directed at ortho position by heterocycle or imine groups, are presented. The role of carboxylate partners is shown for Ru(II) catalysts that are able to operate profitably in water and to selectively produce diarylated or monoarylated products. The alkylation of (hetero)arenes with primary and secondary alkylhalides, and by hydroarylation of alkene C=C bonds is presented. The recent access to functional alkenes via oxidative dehydrogenative functionalization of C-H bonds with alkenes first, and then with alkynes, is shown to be catalysed by a Ru(ll) species associated with a silver salt in the presence of an oxidant such as Cu(OAc)2. Finally the catalytic oxidative annulations with alkynes to rapidly form a variety of heterocycles are described by initial activation of C-H followed by that of N-H or O-H bonds and by formation of a second C-C bond on reaction with C=0, C=N, and sp C-H bonds. Most catalytic cycles leading from C-H to C-C bond are discussed. 

In order to find alternative routes to functimial olefins via the very useful Heck reaction [52] oxidative dehydrogenative cross-coupling of sp C-H bonds with (alkene) C-H bond was first discovered using Pd(II) catalyst and an oxidant, by Moritani and Fujiwara [25,53], This oxidative alkenylation of aromatic C-H bonds profitably performed using cheap and stable mthenium(ll) catalysts was shown for the first time in 2011 successively by the groups of Satoh and Miura [54], Ackermann [55], Bruneau and Dixneuf [56], and Jegaiunohan [57] [(Eq. 2)]. This Ru(n)-catalysed alkenylation reaction offers a potential to reach a large variety of functional alkenes at low cost and has been extended to annulation reactions with alkynes for a fast access to heterocycles. 

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