Alkyl derivatives coupling

Oxidative cross-coupling reactions of alkylated derivatives of activated CH compounds, such as malonic esters, acetylacetone, cyanoacetates, and certain ketones, with nitroalkanes promoted by silver nitrate or iodine lead to the formation of the nitroalkylated products.67 This is an alternative way of performing SRN1 reactions using a-halo-nitroalkanes. 

The coupling of thioamides with a variety of oxidizing agents is a widely utilized method for the synthesis of 3,5-diaryl-l,2,4-thiadiazoles (see Section 5.08.9.2). This method is not suitable for alkyl derivatives. 3,5-Dialkyl derivatives can be more effectively prepared from a suitably substituted thioacylamidine (see Equation 22), and this method allows a range of unsymmetrical derivatives to be prepared. 

Recently, with a view to overcome the difficulty on the preparation of aryl or alkenyl halides or sulfonates, thioamides and their S-alkyl derivatives have been proposed as a new class of electrophilic partners. This palladium cross-coupling methodology was developed by Liebeskind and mostly applied to heteroaromatic templates.118 121... 

Cross coupling between an aryl halide and an activated alkyl halide, catalysed by the nickel system, is achieved by controlling the rate of addition of the alkyl halide to the reaction mixture. When the aryl halide is present in excess, it reacts preferentially with the Ni(o) intermediate whereas the Ni(l) intermediate reacts more rapidly with an activated alkyl halide. Thus continuous slow addition of the alkyl halide to the electrochemical cell already charged with the aryl halide ensures that the alkyl-aryl coupled compound becomes the major product. Activated alkyl halides include benzyl chloride, a-chloroketones, a-chloroesters and amides, a-chloro-nitriles and vinyl chlorides [202, 203, 204], Asymmetric induction during the coupling step occurs with over 90 % distereomeric excess from reactions with amides such as 62, derived from enantiomerically pure (-)-ephedrine, even when 62 is a mixture of diastereoisomcrs prepared from a racemic a-chloroacid. Metiha-nolysis of the amide product affords the chiral ester 63 and chiral ephedrine is recoverable [205]. 

Four of the diastereomeric 3-amino-l,2,3-triphenylpropanols and some A-alkyl derivatives were assigned on the basis of vicinal 1H,1H coupling constants and their interpretation in terms of six-membered ring conformations with hydrogen bonds354, analogous to 1. 

All of the alkyl electrophiles shown in Schemes 73-78 are primary alkyl derivatives. On the other hand, cross-coupling of primary alkylzincs with secondary alkyl iodides and bromides was shown to be feasible with 4% Ni(COD)2, 8% s-Bu-Pybox (3) and DMA(N,N-Dimethylacetamide)88k (Scheme 79). More recently, a modification of this procedure through the use of -Pr-Pybox and 7 1 DMI/THF, where DMI is 1,3-dimethyl-2-imidazolidinone, in place of v-Bu-Pybox (3) and DMA has been shown to permit enantioselective alkylation of racemic secondary a-bromoamides with organozincs210 (Scheme 79). 

Shmaryahu Hoz of Bar-Ilan University reports (J. Org. Chem. 68 4388, 2003) that alkyl boranes couple with dinitro aromatic rings such as 1 to give the alkylated aromatic, with loss of one of the nitro groups. This reaction shows remarkable regioselectivity, as illustrated by the formation of 2. Much more complex alkyl boranes participate also, as illustrated by the coupling of the 9-BBN derivative 3. The reaction proceeded to give 4 as a single diastereomer. 

Amino-l,2,4-thiadiazoles are usually prepared by treating amidine hydrochlorides with halogen and thiocyanates to yield the 3-alkyl derivatives or treating alkylisothiouronium salts similarly to yield the 3-alkylthio derivatives (56CB2742). Diazonium salts derived from 5-amino-l,2,4-thiadiazole derivatives, which are prepared in acetic acid, are extremely reactive and are capable of coupling with m -xylene (60CB397). 

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