Alkenylations, with alkenyliodonium salts

Evidence for a Michael addition of a nucleophile to alkenyl(phenyl)iodonium salts at the Cp atom has now been reported for the first time. Nucleophilic vinylic substitutions of (Z)-(/3-bromoalkenyl)iodonium tetrafiuoroborates (161) and its (Z)-(/3-chloroalkenyl) analogue with sodium benzenesulfinate in THE afforded stereoselectively (Z)-l,2-bis(benzenesulfonyl)alkene (163) with retention of configuration. Intermediate formation of (Z)-[/3-(benzenesulfonyl)alkenyl]iodonium salt (162) in these reactions was established by NMR experiments in CDCI3. The formation of (Z)-(162) involves a hitherto unobserved Michael addition of benzenesulfinate anion to the alkenyliodonium salts at the Cp atom, followed by halogen extrusion. ... 

The selectivity of the alkenylation reactions and the yields of products can be dramatically improved by carrying out the reaction of alkenyliodonium salts with carbon nucleophiles in the presence of transition metal compounds in stoichiometric or catalytic amounts. Thus, the reactions of bicycloalkenyldiiodo-nium salts 62 with cyanide anion or with alkynyllithium in the absence of transition metals are non selective and lead to a wide spectrum of products, while the same reactions in the presence of the equimolecular amount of copper(I) cyanide afford the respective products of vinylic nucleophilic substitution in good yields (Scheme 29) [52,53]. 

The outcome of the reaction of alkenyliodonium salts with halide salts depends on the substitution pattern of the iodonium substrate. Thus, treatment of ( )-alkenyliodonium salts with tetra(n-butyl)ammonium halides (X = Cl, Br or I) afforded exclusively the corresponding (Z)-alkenyl halides, the product of inversion of configuration.The mechanism of these reactions with configuration inversion still remains a matter of debate, an SN2-type transition being postulated. When the same reaction was performed with a combination of cuprous halides and potassium halides at room temperature in the dark, complete retention of stereochemistry was observed. 

Preparation First representatives of alkenyliodonium salts, dichlorovinyl(phenyl)iodonium species, were reported by Thiele and Haakh in the early 1900s [436]. The first general synthetic approach to alkenyl(phenyl)iodonium salts was developed by Ochiai in the mid-1980s [437,438], This method is based on the reaction of silylated alkenes 299 with iodosylbenzene in the presence of Lewis acids, leading to the stereoselective formation of various alkenyliodonium tetrafluoroborates 300 in good yield (Scheme 2.85). 

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