Alkyl halides palladium complexes

Alkyl halides or alkyl sulfates, treated with the salts of sulfinic acids, give sulfones. A palladium catalyzed reaction with a chiral complexing agent led to sulfones with modest asymmetric induction. Alkyl sulfinates (R SO—OR) may be side products. Sulfonic acids themselves can be used, if DBU (p. 1337) is... 

It is possible to replace one isocyanide by triphenylphosphine, or to replace two isocyanides with diphos, giving phosphine analogues of these complexes. These species are not available from analogous reactions of phosphine-palladium(O) and (II) complexes. Reactions with active alkyl halides proceeds with oxidation nitric oxide also oxidizes these complexes. [Eqs. (31, 32)]. 

As reported in Scheme 1 the process involves a series of steps. The alkylpalladium species 1 forms through oxidative addition of the aromatic iodide to palladium(O) followed by noibomene insertion (4-7). The ready generation of complex 2 (8-11) from 1 is due to the unfavourable stereochemistry preventing P-hydrogen elimination from 1 (12). Complex 2 further reacts with alkyl halides RX to form palladium(IV) complex 3 (13-15). Migration of the R group to the... 

Monoanions derived from nitroalkanes are more prone to alkylate on oxygen rather than on carbon in reactions with alkyl halides, as discussed in Section 5.1. Methods to circumvent O-alkylation of nitro compounds are presented in Sections 5.1 and 5.4, in which alkylation of the a.a-dianions of primary nitro compounds and radial reactions are described. Palladium-catalyzed alkylation of nitro compounds offers another useful method for C-alkylation of nitro compounds. Tsuj i and Trost have developed the carbon-carbon bond forming reactions using 7t-allyl Pd complexes. Various nucleophiles such as the anions derived from diethyl malonate or ethyl acetoacetate are employed for this transformation, as shown in Scheme 5.7. This process is now one of the most important tools for synthesis of complex compounds.6811-1 Nitro compounds can participate in palladium-catalyzed alkylation, both as alkylating agents (see Section 7.1.2) and nucleophiles. This section summarizes the C-alkylation of nitro compounds using transition metals. 

With the exception of intramolecular amination reactions, all of the early aryl halide aminations were catalyzed by palladium complexes containing the sterically hindered P(o-tol)3. In papers published back-to-back in 1996, amination chemistry catalyzed by palladium complexes of DPPF and BINAP was reported.36,37 These catalysts allowed for the coupling of aryl bromides and iodides with primary alkyl amines, cyclic secondary amines, and anilines. 

Arylzinc species prepared via the sacrificial anode process and from aryl halides in the presence of a nickel 2,2 -bipyridine, as already reported in Section . .1, were found totally unreactive towards common electrophiles such as aldehydes, carboxylic anhydrides or activated alkyl halides. However, they react with some electrophiles when they are activated by the presence of a catalytic amount of copper salts (10 mol% Cul) together with tetramethylethylene diamine (1MEDA) as described by Knochel and Singer on the ArZnX—CuCN metal exchange47 or when the reaction is catalyzed by palladium complex. 

Polystyrene-bound secondary aliphatic amines and /V-alkyl amino acids can be ally-lated by treatment with a diene and an aryl iodide or bromide in the presence of palla-dium(II) acetate (Entry 14, Table 10.3). As the diene, 1,3-, 1,4-, and 1,5-dienes can be used, and, besides aryl halides, heteroaryl bromides have also been successfully used [63], This remarkable reaction is likely to proceed via the formation of an aryl palladium complex, with subsequent insertion of an alkene into the C-Pd bond. The resulting organopalladium compound does not undergo ( -elimination (as in the Heck reaction), but isomerizes to an allyl palladium complex, which reacts with the amine to give the observed allyl amines. 

Oxidative Addition of Alkyl Halides to Palladium(0). The stereochemistry of the oxidative addition (31) of alkyl halides to the transition metals of group VIII can provide information as to which of the many possible mechanisms are operative. The addition of alkyl halides to d8-iridium complexes has been reported to proceed with retention (32), inversion (33), and racemization (34, 35) via a free radical mechanism at the asymmetric carbon center. The kinetics of this reaction are consistent with nucleophilic displacement by iridium on carbon (36). Oxi-... 

Reactions with Acyl Halides. The palladium-carbon bond in alkyl VII and acyl VIII complexes also can be broken by acyl and alkyl halides, respectively, to give ketones (55). The reaction of the benzyl complex Vila with acetyl chloride in the presence of 2,6-lutidine provided good yield of methyl benzyl ketone, XVII. In the absence of the base, lower yields (26% ) were obtained. Surprisingly, a similar reaction between the benzyl complex and an excess of phenylacetyl chloride afforded a 156% yield of dibenzyl ketone, XVIII, based on the starting benzyl complex (see bottom of p. 105). 

Neither the palladium nor nickel catalyst described will promote the carbonylation of saturated aliphatic halides as noted above. However, this reaction can be catalyzed with cobalt (17) or iron (77) and probably with manganese (18) carbonyl anion salts. These carbonyl anions are strongly nucleophilic species and readily displace halide or other good leaving groups from primary or secondary positions giving alkyl metal carbonyl complexes. 

Normally, the most practical vinyl substitutions are achieved by use of the oxidative additions of organic bromides, iodides, diazonium salts or triflates to palladium(0)-phosphine complexes in situ. The organic halide, diazonium salt or triflate, an alkene, a base to neutralize the acid formed and a catalytic amount of a palladium(II) salt, usually in conjunction with a triarylphosphine, are the usual reactants at about 25-100 C. This method is useful for reactions of aryl, heterocyclic and vinyl derviatives. Acid chlorides also react, usually yielding decarbonylated products, although there are a few exceptions. Likewise, arylsulfonyl chlorides lose sulfur dioxide and form arylated alkenes. Aryl chlorides have been reacted successfully in a few instances but only with the most reactive alkenes and usually under more vigorous conditions. Benzyl iodide, bromide and chloride will benzylate alkenes but other alkyl halides generally do not alkylate alkenes by this procedure. 

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