Alkynyliodonium salts preparation

SCHEME 1. Representative methods for alkynyliodonium salt preparation. 

The regiochemistry of the hydrozirconation of disubstituted stannyl- [24, 167-170] and silyl- [171] acetylenes and boron- [118, 172-175] and zinc- [34, 126] alkynyl derivatives result in the formation of 1,1-dimetallo compounds. Hydrozirconation of alkynyliodonium salts affords alkenylchlorozirconocenes with the Zr-C bond geminal to the iodonium moiety [176]. These zirconocene complexes allowed the preparation of ( )-trisubstituted olefins (Scheme 8-20). 

Intramolecularity was the next issue to be probed within the context of alkynyliodonium salt/nucleophile addition reactions.53 1 No prior history was available to guide us, and so the prospects for success remained uncertain. Of primary concern was the potential for iodonium salt/base destructive interactions in competition with the desired N-H deprotonation reaction. A substrate that bore some resemblance to key portions of the agelastatin precursor 33 was prepared (Scheme 6), compound 39. This species duplicated the alkynyliodonium/"amide" pairing of the real system, but it lacked the complex piperazine carbene trap of 33. The tosylimide (pre)nucleophile was proposed as a compromise between what we really wanted (an N-methyl amide) and what would likely work (a tosylamide). Simple treatment of 39 with mild base effected the desired bicyclization to afford the tosylimide product 41 in decent yield. A transition state model 40 for C-H insertion that features an equatorial phenyl unit might rationalize the observed sense of diastereoselectivity. So, at least for 39, no evidence for possible interference by iodonium/base reactions was detected. 

Alkynyl(phenyl)iodonium salts have attracted a significant interest as stable and readily available powerful alkynylating reagents. The preparation, structure, and chemistry of alkynyliodonium salts was extensively covered in a recent review [4]. 

Cyclopentannelated tetrahydrofurans 169 [129] and substituted dihydro-furans 171 [130] can be synthesized by the treatment of functionalized al-kynyliodonium salts 168 and 170 with the appropriate nucleophile (Scheme 64). Alkynyliodonium salts 168 and 170, the key precursors in these reactions, are conveniently prepared from the appropriate alkynylstannanes and can be used without additional purification. 

A variety of five-membered nitrogen heterocycles can be prepared efficiently by inter- or intramolecular addition/cyclizations of sulfonamide anions with alkynyliodonium salts. The intermolecular variant employs the combination of the amides 172 or anilides 174 with propynyl(phenyl)iodonium triflate (Scheme 65) [131,132]. The yield of dihydropyrroles 173 in this cyclization is extremely sensitive to the nature of the protective group P the tosyl group in 172 proved... 

Reactions of alkynyliodonium salts with multidentate nucleophiles can be employed for the synthesis of heterocyclic compounds. Recent examples include preparations of thiazoles, selenazoles, and 2-mercaptothiazoles by the treatment of alkynyliodonium mesylates or tosylates with thioamides, selenoamides, and ammonium dithiocarbamate (Scheme 62) [169-171]. A novel hetero-Claisen rearrangement of tricovalent iodine(III) intermediates was proposed to account for the 2,4-disubstitution pattern of the thiazoles [169]. 

Stable esters coming formally from alkynols and carboxylic, sulphonic or dialkyl phosphoric acids were prepared for the first time via alkynyliodonium salts with the corresponding anion. Several alkynyl carboxylates were obtained by anion exchange of alkynyl iodonium tosylates the initially formed salts, PhI+C=CR RCO2, were converted spontaneously into the esters on elution through a chromatographic column packed with an anion-exchange resin (Pol+ArCOj) ... 

Alkynyliodonium ions, 1 and 2, are hypervalent iodine species in which one or two alkynyl ligands are bound to a positively charged iodine(III) atom. They are sensitive to nucleophiles, especially at the /1-carbon atom(s) of the alkynyl ligand(s), and for that reason, the isolation of stable alkynyliodonium salts generally requires the incorporation of nucleofugic anions. A list of known alkynyliodonium compounds (i.e. as of 4/1/94), containing 134 iodonium salts derived from 103 iodonium ions, and references (5-45) to their preparation and characterization are presented in Table 1. Among these compounds, alkynyl(phenyl)iodonium sulfonates and tetrafluoroborates are the most common, while alkynyl(alkyl)iodonium salts of any kind are unknown. 

TABLE 2. Selected preparative approaches to iodine(III) reagents employed for the synthesis of alkynyliodonium salts... 

Vinyliodonium ions, 35 and 36, are hypervalent iodine species in which one or two alkenyl ligands are bound to a positively charged iodine(III) atom. Although they are reactive with nucleophilic reagents, they are less labile than alkynyliodonium ions, and stable halide salts of vinyliodonium ions can be prepared. The first vinyliodonium compounds [i.e. (a, / -dichlorovinyl)iodonium salts] were synthesized by the treatment of silver acetylide-silver chloride complexes with (dichloroiodo)arenes or l-(dichloroiodo)-2-chloroethene in the presence of water (equation 152). The early work was summarized by Willgerodt in 1914115. This is, of course, a limited and rather impractical synthetic method, and some time elapsed before the chemistry of vinyliodonium salts was developed. Contemporary synthetic approaches to vinyliodonium compounds include the treatment of (1) vinylsilanes and vinylstannanes with 23-iodanes, (2) terminal alkynes with x3-iodanes, (3) alkynyliodonium salts with nucleophilic reagents and (4) alkynyliodonium salts with dienes. 

The only known alternative procedure for the preparation of alkynyl(phenyl)iodonium arylsulfonates, the latest member of the family of polyvalent Iodine compounds, involves the reaction of [hydroxy(tosyloxy)iodo]benzene. PhlOH-OTs, with terminal alkynes as first reported by Koser and elaborated by us. This procedure has a number of shortcomings. Formation of the desired alkynyliodonium salt is usually accompanied by a related vinyl species, R(TsO)C=CHIPh-OTs, that both decreases the yields and causes purification problems. Furthermore, when the alkyl substituent of the starting alkyne is small, such as CH3, n-Pr, n-Bu, etc., this procedure gives either no product or low yields at best. 

The great majority of o-acetylide transition metal complexes are prepared by interaction of a metal halide with acetylide, RC C", or the formal oxidative addition of terminal alkynes or alkynyl stannanes to the metal center. As amply demonstrated in the previous section, alkynyliodonium salts may serve as electrophilic acetylene equivalents. In other words, transition metal complexes may act as nucleophiles in reactions with alkynyliodonium species. Indeed, the reaction [81] of the square planar Vaska s complex, 106, and its Rh analog, 107, with a variety of alkynyliodonium triflates in toluene results in 89-96% isolated yield of the hexa-coordinate o-acetylide complexes, 108 and 109 [Eq. (58)]. Reaction is essentially instantaneous and occurs with retention of stereochemistry around the metal center. 

To date, reaction of alkynyliodonium salts with the corresponding anionic nucleophiles is the most general and selective approach to acetylenic esters. However, two more conventional but less general syntheses have also been reported in the literature ". Hoppe and Gonschorrek " have prepared enynyl carbamates 112, which also are members of the family of alkynyl esters, by treatment of allene 111 with butyllithium (equation 69). 

Several heteroaryl(phenyl)iodonium organosulfonates have been prepared by the [3-1-2] cycloaddition reactions of alkynyliodonium salts with 1,3-dipolar reagents. The reaction of (arylethynyl)iodonium tosylates... 

Various cyclohexadienyl(phenyl)iodonium salts have been prepared by the [4- -2] Diels-Alder cycloadditions of alkynyliodonium salts 319, functionalized with electron-withdrawing substituents in the p-position, with a wide range of dienes. Scheme 2.95 shows several examples of these cycloadditions, affording adducts 320-322 as stable microcrystalline solids [458]. 

Preparation A common synthetic approach to alkynyliodonium salts involves the reaction of an electrophilic X -iodane with a terminal alkyne or its silylated, stannylated, or lithiated derivative. In the early 1980s, Koser and coworkers found that [hydroxy(tosyloxy)iodo]benzene 75 reacts with terminal alkynes 344 upon gentle heating in chloroform or dichloromethane to form alkynyliodonium tosylates 345 in moderate to low yield (Scheme 2.98) [199,471,476]. 

The most versatile method for preparing alkynyl(phenyl)iodonium triflates employs the iodonium transfer reaction between cyano(phenyl)iodonium triflate (348) and alkynylstannanes. The interaction of a large variety of readily available p-functionalized alkynylstannanes 349 with reagent 348 under very mild conditions provides ready access to diverse p-functionalized alkynyliodonium salts 350 in excellent yields (Scheme 2.100) [458,482,483]. This procedure is particularly useful for the preparation of various complex. 

This procedure has been used for the preparation of the bis-iodonium acetylenes 356 and 357 [460,488], conjugated 358 and unconjugated 359 bis(alkynyliodonium) salts [489-491], tris(alkynyliodonium) salts 360 [491] and diynyl(phenyl)iodonium triflates 361 [492] (Scheme 2.101). 

Yoshida and coauthors have reported a facile preparation of iodonium salts 367 by the reaction of potassium organotrifluoroborates 366 with (difluoroiodo)arenes under mild conditions (Scheme 2.104) [396]. A similar approach to alkynyliodonium salts by the reaction of alkynyldifluoroboranes with polyfluoroorganyliodine difluorides was developed by Frohn and Bardin [501]. 

Various flve-membered heterocycles can be prepared by inter- or intramolecular addition/cyclizations of appropriate nucleophiles with alkynyliodonium salts via alkylidene carbene intermediates [856, 978, 979]. The intermolecular variant of this cyclization has been employed in the synthesis of 3-substituted-5,6-dihydroimidazo[2,l-( ]thiazoles [997], 2-substituted imidazo[l,2-a]pyrimidines [998] and 2-substituted-imidazo[l,2-fl]pyridines [999]. In a representative example, 2-substituted imidazo[l,2-fl]pyridines 744 were synthesized in good yield by cyclocondensation of 2-aminopyridine (742) with alkynyl(phenyl)iodonium tosylates 743 under mild conditions (Scheme 3.293) [999]. The mechanism of this cyclization involves... 

The intramolecular variant of the alkylidene carbene cyclization is achieved by treating functionalized alkynyliodonium salts with a suitable nucleophile. These cyclizations are exemplified by the following works the preparation of various functionalized 2,5-dihydrofurans by treatment of 3-alkoxy-l-alkynyl-(phenyl)iodonium triflates with sodium benzenesulfinate [1002], employment of the alkylidene carbene cyclization in the total syntheses of natural products agelastatin A and agelastatin B [1003] and preparation of the tricyclic core of ( )-halichlorine through the use of an alkynyliodonium salt/alkylidenecarbene/1,5 C—H insertion sequence [1004]. In particular, Wardrop and Fritz have employed the sodium benzenesulfinate-induced cyclization of alkynyliodonium triflate 751 for the preparation of dihydrofuran 752 (Scheme 3.295), which is a key intermediate product in the total synthesis of ( )-magnofargesin [1002]. 

Ynamide preparation via oxidative coupling of amides and alkynes represents an efihcient alternative to known multi-step methods, such as alkyne halogenation or the synthesis of alkynyliodonium salts followed by C-N formation. The only shortcoming of this system is that 5 equiv of the amide are necessary to achieve satisfactory yields. 

Likewise, the reaction of the lithium enolate of aminomalonate 126 with alkynyliodonium triflates 127 affords alkynylmalonates 128 in good yields (Scheme 52) [111]. The best yields in this reaction are observed when a freshly prepared solution of the lithium enolate in THF is added to a stirred cold solution of the iodonium salt. The use of potassium enolate instead of lithium, or addition of the reagents in a different order, results in lower yields of products 128. 

Various 2-substituted benzofurans 165 are obtained by the interaction of iodo-nium salts 164 with sodium phenoxide in methanol (Scheme 63) [126, 127]. This reaction proceeds via the intramolecular alkylidene carbene insertion into the ortho-CH bond of the phenoxy ring. Furopyridine derivatives 167 can be prepared similarly by the intramolecular aromatic C-H insertion of the alkylidenecarbenes generated by the reaction of alkynyliodonium tosylates 166 with potassium salts of 4- or 3-hydroxypyridines [128]. 

Two methods for the direct conversion of terminal alkynes to alkynyl(phenyl)iodo-nium tetrafluoroborates have been reported, but their generality has not been documented in the literature. The ter -butylethynyl salt has been prepared by the generation of lithium tert-butylethynyl(trifluoro)borate and its coupling with iodosylbenzene by the standard method (equation 29)80. The treatment of 1-pentyne and phenylacetylene with diphenyl-ju-oxodiiodine(III) bistetrafluoroborate in dichloromethane likewise affords the corresponding alkynyliodonium tetrafluoroborates (equations 30)29. 

Similarly, Rh and Ir a-alkynes can also be prepared by generation of the triflate salt of the alkynyliodonium cation RC=Cl Ph, which serves as an electrophile for a nucleophilic, monovalent metal center (87, 88). 

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