Alkynylation benzoate salt

Other pseudo-halides are used for carbonylation. Phenyl fluorosulfonate (484) can be carbonylated to give benzoate[337]. Aryl(aryl)iodonium salts[338], aryl(alkenyl)iodonium salts (485)[339], and aryl(alkynyl)iodonium salts (486)[340] are reactive compounds and undergo carbonylation under mild conditions (room temperature, 1 atm) to give aryl, alkenyl, and alkynyl esters. Iodoxybenzene (487) is carbonylated under mild conditions in... 

Reaction of trimethylsilylalkynes with 16 in dichloromethane in the presence of BF3 OEt2 at room temperature followed by heating in methanol at 60 °C results in the stable heterocyclic alkynyliodonium salts 17 [Eq. (9)] [31]. These species represent intramolecular iodonium salts where the counterion is a carboxylate. Unlike the acyclic alkynyl(phenyl)iodonium carbox-ylates 18, that are unstable to isolation and decompose to the corresponding alkynyl benzoates 19 [Eq. (10)] [32], the cyclic analogs 17 are readily isolable. 

Alkynyl carboxylate esters, 75, are obtained in the reaction of lithium acetylides with bis(acyloxy)iodobenzene, 73 [Eq. (32)] [59], These reactions are likely to proceed through the intermediacy of the respective alkynyliodonium carboxylates (74), although no such salts have been isolated to date as they spontaneously decompose, via loss of iodobenzene, to the alkynyl carboxylates, 75. Only benzoate esters (75 R = CgHj) are sufficiently stable to isolate and store pure for longer periods. Simple alkylcarboxylates such as acetates are not stable although the hindered pivaloate ester (65 R = t-Bu, R = t-Bu) has been isolated in low yield [59]. Among the reasons for the instability of these esters is their sensitivity to moisture they both readily add water and undergo subsequent hydrolyses [60]. Because of the sensitivity to moisture, the isolated yield [41] of bisalkynyl benzoates, 76, from the bisalkynyliodonium triflates, 35, is only 6-15% [Eq. (33)]. 

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