Organozinc compounds with alkenyl halides

Organozinc compounds are also useful in palladium-catalyzed coupling with aryl and alkenyl halides. Procedures for arylzinc,156 alkenylzinc,157 and alkylzinc158 reagents have been developed. The ferrocenyldiphosphine dppf has been found to be an especially good Pd ligand for these reactions.159... 

The cross-coupling of organozinc compounds has been accomplished using a number of metal enolate complexes, namely Rh(acac)(H2C=CH2)2 (6) , Co(acac)3 (30) °, Ni(acac)2 (47) , Li(acac) (107) and Cr(acac)3 (108) . For instance, complex 47 proved to be an extremely effective catalyst system for the Negishi cross-coupling of arylzinc halides (109) with aryl (110), heteroaryl and alkenyl halides, triflates and nonaflates to give the corresponding biaryl compounds (111) (equation 30). The solvent played an important role in these reactions and optimal conditions were found with 8 1 mixtures of THF and A-ethylpyrrolidinone (nep). Only 0.05 mol% of the nickel complex... 

The Negishi cross-coupling reaction is the nickel- or palladium-catalyzed coupling of organozinc compounds with various halides or triflates (aryl, alkenyl, alkynyl,... 

Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions of organozinc compounds with alkenyl and aryl halides can be carried out under mild conditions and are the fastest among all reactions using various organometallics. The reaction with acyl hahdes is not an exception. Usually, the reaction is completed at lower than room temperature within a couple of hours [38,251 - 25 3]. As organozinc compounds are coordinatively unsaturated and sterically less bulky, the transmetallation step is facilitated [29] ... 

Sample Solution (a) Palladium-catalyzed reactions of organozinc compounds with alkenyl halides give cross-coupling in which bond formation occurs between the carbon attached to zinc and the carbon attached to the halogen. The stereochemistry at the double bond of the iodoalkene is retained. The product is (f)-6-methyl-l,5-decadiene. 

Negishi and his co-workers have described a new synthetic route to 1,5-dienes (or 1,5-enynes) which is particularly suitable for the construction of head-to-tail coupled isoprene units. The key step involves a regio- and stereo-selective palladium-catalysed cross-coupling of homoallylic (or homopropargylic) organozinc compounds with alkenyl halides (e.g. Scheme 95) homo-coupling... 

Instead of quenching with deuterium chloride, the intermediary organozinc compound 16 can be used as a nucleophile. Not only allylic halide but also alkenyl or aryl halide can be used as an electrophile in the reaction with gem-dizinc. In Scheme 8.27, the sequential coupling reactions of fois(iodozincio)methane are summarized. In the case of the coupling with a bromoalkene, a nickel catalyst was more effective than a palladium catalyst. 

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