Alkyls palladium

As mentioned above nonconjugated dienes give stable complexes where the two double bonds can form a chelate complex. A common pathway in palladium-catalyzed oxidation of nonconjugated dienes is that, after a first nucleophilic addition to one of the double bonds, the second double bond inserts into the palladium-carbon bond. The new (cr-alkyl)palladium complex produced can then undergo a /(-elimination or an oxidative cleavage reaction (Scheme 2). An early example of this type of reaction, although not catalytic, was reported by Tsuji and Takahashi (equation 2)12. 

Both enantiomers of racemic 2-propenyl acetate can be formed from meso-type 7r-alkyl palladium intermediates by oxidative addition. 7r-Allylpalladium complexes with two alkyl substituents at the 1- and 3-positons are known to... 

Intermolecular, enantioselective Heck reactions require a cyclic olefin as substrate, since syn carbopal-ladation of a cyclic olefin results in a geometrically defined a-alkyl-palladium compound. By necessity, the subsequent syn dehydropalladation must take place away from the newly formed chiral centre, thereby affording a chiral product. 

Insertion of CO is therefore always kinetically controlled. When an alkyl palladium species has formed, the open site will be occupied by a coordinating CO molecule. Carbon monoxide coordinates more strongly to palladium than ethene, even when the palladium centre is cationic. The reason for this is steric the cone angle of ethene is much larger than that of CO and the steric hindrance in the ethene complex is therefore much larger. If the barriers of activation for the insertion processes of ethene and CO are of the same order of... 

Quantitative data for the difference in complexation of ethene and CO to hydrocarbylpalladium(dppp)+ were reported by Brookhart and co-workers [15,33], The equilibrium between CO and ethene coordination amounts to about 104 at 25 °C. Multiplied by the concentrations of the two gases and the two individual rate constants for the insertion they calculated that the ratio of CO insertion versus ethene insertion is about 105 in an alkyl-palladium intermediate under Curtin-Hammett conditions, that is to say fast exchange of coordinated CO and ethene ligands compared to insertion reactions. Figure 12.9 summarises this. 

A (3-hydride elimination requires that there be a coplanar relationship between the appropriate hydrogen atom and palladium Since this syn arrangement is not present in conformation 33, internal rotation (C) of the alkyl palladium species is necessary. p-Hy-dnde transfer to palladium from 34 leads to tv/i elimination with formation of olefin 35. The catalyst is subsequently regenerated through the presence of base with elimination of HX (E), after which the catalytic cycle can be repeated. 

In 1965, Tsuji et al. observed that palladium could catalyze the allylic alkylation reaction [18]. This discovery, which is a very attractive way to expand the scope of the allylic amination reactions mentioned above, has stimulated an intense research in this field, and even though complexes of nickel, platinum, rhodium, iron, ruthenium, molybdenum, cobalt, and tungsten have been found also to catalyze the alkylation, palladium complexes have received by far the greatest attention [19]. 

The equilibrium constant (Ke) at elevated temperature can be estimated using NMR spectrum. However, the scale to estimate Ke cannot be designed in the way previously mentioned since the spectrum of alkyl palladium is unavailable. 

This combination of reagents h s been used to oxidize terminal vinyl groups to methyl ketones and is known as the Wacker oxidation. The nucleophile is simply water, which attacks the activated alkene at the more substituted end in an oxypalladation step. (3-Hydride elimination from the resulting a-alkyl palladium complex releases the enol, which is rapidly converted into the more stable keto form. Overall, the reaction is a hydration of a terminal alkene that can tolerate a range of functional groups. 

Palladium coordinates to one face of the diene promoting intramolecular attack by the alcohol on the opposite face. The resulting <7-alkyl palladium can form a 71-allyl complex with the palladium on the lower face simply by sliding along to interact with the double bond. Nucleophilic attack of chloride from the lithium salt then proceeds in the usual way on the face opposite palladium. The overall addition to the diene is therefore cis. 

Normally now, the alkyl palladium(II) species would lose palladium by a P-elimination. This is impossible in this example as there is no hydrogen atom cis to the Pdl group. Instead, an external reducing agent is needed and that is the role of the formate anion it provides a hydride equivalent by transfer hydrogenation when it loses CO2. 

In this reaction the first addition product was isolated, in catalytic reactions this is not the case and in these reactions the first (cr-alkyl)palladium complex formed from the nucleophilic addition reacts further. For example, in the palladium-catalyzed oxidation of 1,5-cyclooctadiene with Pb(OAc)4 in acetic acid the corresponding diacetate 6 was obtained in 76% yield together with some chloroacetate (equation Adduct 7 is the... 

A o,jt-bonded alkyl-palladium complex undergoes P-carbon elimination on protonation of the cyclopentadiene ring [79]. 

The pioneering studies in this area were reported in 1999 by Narasaka, who demonstrated intramolecular heteroatom Heck-type reactions of 0-pentafluorobenzoyl oximes [97]. As shown below, treatment of unsaturated substrate 97 with a catalytic amount of Pd(PPh,y in the presence of triethyl amine provided pyrrole 98 upon workup with chlorotrimethylsilane. The mechanism of this reaction proceeds via oxidative addition of the N—O bond to afford 99, which undergoes alkene insertion into the Pd—N bond to provide alkyl-palladium complex 100. The exo-methylene product 101 is generated by [i-hydride elimination from 100, and isomerization to the desired pyrrole 98 occurs when chlorotrimethylsilane is added. 

This reaction type differs from die three-component reaction reported by Grigg et al. Thus, Grigg et al. [53] (Scheme 7) immobihzed 3-iodo-4-(N-acetyl-N-(2-methyl-2-propenyl)amino)benzoate (36) onto a sohd support. In the presence of suitable Pd salts, Pd substituted the iodide function of the aromatic. The proximal isopropyhdene group trapped the resulting metalated species in an intramolecular Heck reaction. The resulting alkyl palladium species (37) could then react with a suitable carbanion equivalent. The authors used vinylstaimanes or boronates for this purpose, which they obtained in situ from alkynes by hydroboration or hydro-starmylation. The latter procedure allowed them to attach the same vinylic species via its terminal carbon (boronate) (41) and its subterminal carbon (stannane) (39). 

Wacker oxidation11 provides a way to add water to an alkene 8 and oxidise the product to a ketone 72 all in the one step using oxygen under palladium (II) catalysis. The key to the difference between these two superficially rather similar sequences lies in the great tendency for palladium to undergo p-elimination 70. Oxypalladation 69 gives an unstable alkyl-palladium o-complex which decomposes at once to regenerate the double bond. 

This unusual strategy is thought to make use of the different reactivities of palladium(O), palladium(II) and palladium(IV) intermediates. Mechanistically, the reaction is proposed to occur via initial oxidative addition of palladium(O) to the aryl iodide, followed by carbopalladation with norbomene to afford alkyl palladium species II (Scheme 18). 

---