Alkynyliodonium salts, reactions with

A wide variety of sulfur nucleophiles react readily with alkynyliodonium salts. Reaction with sodium thiocyanate in aqueous CH2CI2 afforts alkynyl thiocyanates, 82, in 70-94170 yields [Eq. (38)] [65]. Similarly, diyne dithiocyanates, 83 and 84, are obtained in 69-80% yield from reaction of 34 and 35 with NaSCN [Eqs. (39) and (40)], respectively [41]. Litewise, alkynyl thiocyanates, 82, are obtained from 23 and KSCN in DMF [Eq. (41)] [66]. 

Reactions of alkynyliodonium salts 119 with nucleophiles proceed via an addition-elimination mechanism involving alkylidenecarbenes 120 as key intermediates. Depending on the structure of the alkynyliodonium salt, specific reaction conditions, and the nucleophile employed, this process can lead to a substituted alkyne 121 due to the carbene rearrangement, or to a cyclic product 122 via intramolecular 1,5-carbene insertion (Scheme 50). Both of these reaction pathways have been widely utilized as a synthetic tool for the formation of new C-C bonds. In addition, the transition metal mediated cross-coupling reactions of alkynyliodonium salts are increasingly used in organic synthesis. 

The cyclopentene annulations can also occur in the reactions of alkynyliodo-nium salts with nitrogen- and sulfur nucleophiles (Scheme 61). Specifically, azi-docyclopentene 155 is formed upon treatment of octynyliodonium tosylate 154 with sodium azide in dichloromethane [123]. The reaction of alkynyliodonium salt 156 with sodium toluenesulfinate results in the formation of substituted indene 157 via alkylidene carbene aromatic C-H bond insertion [124]. 

The reaction of alkynyliodonium salts 189 with unsymmetrically substituted dienes 193 results in a mixture of two regioisomeric cyclohexadienes 194 and... 

The onium transfer reaction between alkynylphenyliodonium tetrafluoroborates and triphenylarsine afforded high yields of 1-alkynyltriphenylarsonium tetrafluoroborates.However, this reaction appeared to be mechanistically at variance with the generally admitted patterns of reactivity of alkynyliodonium salts. Reaction of phenyl(phenylethynyl-2- C)iodonium tetrafluoroborate (88) (99% enriched) led to the arsonium salts (89) with more than 95% of enrichment on the p>carbon atom. Although the Michael carbene pathway was not totally excluded, the ligand coupling pathway seemed therefore more important. 

In contrast, the reaction of a range of P-dicarbonyl nucleophiles with a variety of alkynyliodonium salts substituted with an alkyl group possessing a y-CH bond results in the cyclopentene products derived by carbene insertion [51] as illustrated in Scheme 3-5. In fact, as shown in Eq. (22), the alkyl chain need not be restricted to the alkynyliodonium salt but may instead be part of the enolate nucleophile [51]. 

The strongly polarized C = C bond of alkynyliodonium salts, along with their propensity for Michael additions, predicts that they should be good 1,3-dipolarophiles. Indeed, reaction of arylethynyliodonium tosylates with arenenitrile oxides, 127, gives a mbtture of cycloadducts, 128 and 129, in 62-80% yields [91] [Eq. (59)]. Similarly, Me3SiC=CIPh OTf and various diazocarbonyl compounds, 130, result [92] in cycloadducts 131 [Eq. (60)]. Likewise, alkynyliodonium salts react with methyl and phenyl azide to give low yields of triazines, 132, as adducts [Eq. (61)]. 

The first step in this scheme is a Michael addition of the nucleophile to the j5-carbon of the alkynyliodonium salt to give the ylide 102. Loss of iodobenzene from 102 gives alkylidenecarbene 103, which rearranges to alkyne 104 in the absence of external traps. This mechanism is experimentally supported by the isolation of cyclic by-products 108 besides the major products, the alkynyl esters 107 in the reaction of alkynyliodonium salt 105 with nucleophiles (equation 67). These cyclic enol ethers are the result of the insertion of the intermediate carbene 106 into the tertiary-8-carbon-hydrogen bond. 

Another experimental result, the isolation of vinyliodonium salt 110 in the reaction of alkynyliodonium salt 109 with trimethylsilyl azide in wet CH2CI2 (equation 68), supports the intermediate formation of iodonium ylide 102 (Nu = N3) in the mechanism shown in equation 66. 

The reaction of alkynyliodonium salts 319 with unsymmetrically substituted dienes 323 results in a mixture of two regioisomeric cyclohexadienes 324 and 325 (Scheme 2.96) [459]. In general, this cycloaddition shows low regioselectivity in the case of 2-substituted dienes and has a better degree of regioselectivity in the case of 1-substituted dienes. Moreover, the reaction of 1-methylbutadiene (326) with alkynyliodonium salt 327 selectively affords a single regioisomer (328), whose structure was established by X-ray analysis (Scheme 2.96) [459]. 

The cross-coupling reactions of organoboronic acids and carbon monoxide with hyper-valent iodonium salts affords unsymmetrical ketones (Scheme 30). The reaction proceeds smoothly at room temperature and in most cases completes within 0.5 h. Aryl-, alkenyl-, and alkynyliodonium salts react with arylboronic adds in the presence of 0.5% of Pd(PPh3)4 and 1.2 equiv of K2CO3 in DME to provide unsymmetrical aromatic ketones in high yields (Scheme 30). Phenylboronic acid dimethyl ester can be utilized as efficiently as phenylboronic acid. In most cases, a small amount of the direct crosscoupling product (R—Ph, less than 7-8%) is produced. 

Feldman reported a route to dihydropyrroles, pyrroles, and indoles via the reaction of sulfonamide anions with alkynyliodonium triflates <96JOC5440>. Thus, upon nucleophilic addition of the anion of 91 to the p-carbon of the alkynyliodonium salt, the alkylidene carbene 92 is generated which can the undergo C-H insertion to the desired product 93. 

Besides iodonium ylides, alkynyliodonium salts are also useful in heterocyclic synthesis. These salts are obtained from the reaction of the alkynes with an appropriate organohypervalent iodine reagent (Scheme... 

The initial conceptualization of the agelastatin A problem took on the form shown below (Scheme 5).17 The key transform in this sequence features intramolecular addition of an amide-derived anion to a tethered alkynyliodonium salt within 33. The alkylidenecarbene generated from this nucleophilic addition, 32, then has a choice of two diastereotopic C-H bonds (Ha or Hb) for 1,5 insertion. Reaction with Ha would provide an advanced intermediate 31 en route to the target 28. Successful execution of this plan would extend alkynyliodonium salt chemistry in three new directions (1) use of an amine derivative as a nucleophile, (2) intramolecularity in the nucleophile addition step, and (3) diastereoselectivity upon alkylidenecarbene C-H insertion. At the initiation of this project, a lack of precedent on any of these topics suggested that focused scouting experiments to assess feasibility would be prudent before beginning work towards the natural product itself. 

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. 

The pareitropone project began quite by accident after an unexpected observation expanded our thinking about potentially accessible targets for alkynyliodonium salt/alkylidenecarbene chemistry (Scheme 18). Treatment of the tosylamide iodonium salt 125 with base under standard conditions was designed to provide no more than routine confirmation of the aryl C-H insertion capabilities, which were first exposed in indoleforming reactions using tosylanilide anion nucleophiles and propynyl(phenyl)iodonium triflate,5b of the intermediate carbene 126. However, this substrate did not perform as expected, since only trace amounts of the 1,5 C-H insertion product 127 was detected. One major product was formed, and analysis of its spectral data provided yet another surprising lesson in alkynyliodonium salt chemistry for us. The data was only consistent with the unusual cycloheptatriene structure 129. 

Conversion of the alkynylstannane within 149 into the corresponding alkynyliodonium salt 150 proceeded as expected, and this fragile intermediate was treated immediately with base at low temperature (Scheme 23). TLC analysis of the crude reaction mixture indicated only a single off-baseline product, quite visible as a bright purple spot. Isolation of this compound by chromatography and characterization by standard spectral techniques led to the realization that the desired cycloheptatrienylidene product 151 had been formed in good yield. Careful examination of the crude reaction mixture s H NMR spectrum did not provide any indication that a 1,6 C-H insertion-derived... 

The use of hypervalent iodine reagents in carbon-carbon bond forming reactions is summarized with particular emphasis on applications in organic synthesis. The most important recent methods involve the radical decarboxylative alkylation of organic substrates with [bis(acyloxy)iodo]arenes, spirocyclization of para- and ortho-substituted phenols, the intramolecular oxidative coupling of phenol ethers, and the reactions of iodonium salts and ylides. A significant recent research activity is centered in the area of the transition metal-mediated coupling reactions of the alkenyl-, aryl-, and alkynyliodonium salts. 

The predominant formation of five-membered carbocydes or heterocycles 122 (Scheme 50) via a sequential conjugate addition-carbene insertion pathway is generally observed in the reactions of the appropriate alkynyliodonium salts 119 (R = long alkyl chain or other group with C-H bond available at C5) with various relatively hard nucleophiles. Typical nucleophiles used to initiate these selective cyclizations are enolate, azide, sulfinate, tosylamide, thioamide and some other anions. 

Cyclopentenes are commonly formed in the reaction of the appropriate alkynyliodonium salts with enolate anions. Various alkynyliodonium tetrafluo-roborates interact with / -dicarbonyl enolates to give products of cyclopentene annulation in 50-90% yield [121]. Several examples of such annulations are shown in Scheme 59. The carbene cyclization can also occur when the long alkyl... 

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]. 

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. 

Anions of secondary-sulfonamides, especially N-substituted tosylamidate ions, have emerged as premier partners for C-N bond forming reactions with alkynyliodonium salts. To a much lesser extent secondary-carboxamidate ions have also been used for this purpose. For example, the sequential treatment of -substituted tosylamides with n-butyllithium and phenyl(trimethylsi-lylethynyl)iodonium triflate (26) affords the corresponding N-trimethylsi-lylethynyl-p-toluenesulfonamides, which can be desilylated with tetrabutylam-monium fluoride in wet THF (Scheme 51) [ 151 ]. It is noteworthy that the presence of such groups as n-Bu and CH2 = CH(CH2)2- in the tosylamidate ions did... 

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]. 

Despite the synthetic possibilities suggested by this early study, the chemistry of the alkynyliodonium salts lay dormant until the mid-1980s. In 1986, Ochiai and his coworkers published an important communication which shaped much of the later thinking on the reactions of alkynyliodonium ions with nucleophiles28. When / -dicarbonyl enolates are treated with alkynyliodonium tetrafluoroborates containing a long (> three carbons) alkyl chain, derivatives of cyclopentene are produced. This is illustrated in equation 41 for the... 

When / -dicarbonyl enolates are allowed to react with alkynyliodonium salts, typically in ter/-butyl alcohol or THF, alkynyl- and/or cyclopentenyl- -dicarbonyl compounds are obtained. The product compositions are largely regulated by the migratory aptitude of R in the alkynyl moiety and the availability of alkyl side chains for the MC-insertion (MCI) pathway (equation 45). These divergent modes of reactivity are nicely illustrated by the reactions of the 2-phenyl-1,3-indandionate ion with ethynylfphenyl)- and 4-methyl-1-hexynyl(phenyl)iodonium tetrafluoroborates (equation 1 15)27 2. 

MCI reactions of alkynyliodonium salts with enolates derived from active methylene compounds containing two acidic CH bonds follow a divergent course that leads to furans, presumably via carbenic insertion into enolic OH bonds (equation 122)28. In the reaction of acetylacetonate ion with the l-decynyl(phenyl)iodonium ion, CH insertion is competitive with OH insertion (equation 123)28. 

A summary of reported reactions of enolate ions with alkynyliodonium salts is presented in Table 6. Those that result in alkynylation are denoted with an (A), while those that... 

The enolates of unactivated monocarbonyl compounds are enigmatic. Although the products of their reactions with alkynyliodonium salts have not been described, it has been reported that Alkynylation of simple enolates does not occur 3. It appears that alkynyla-tions via the MC pathway are promoted by the action of soft nucleophiles3. 

TABLE 6. Literature survey of reactions of alkynyliodonium salts with enolates... 

In view of the propensity of alkynyliodonium ions for Michael reactions with a wide range of nucleophiles, such displacements at iodine represent an unusual mode of reactivity. However, carbon ligand exchanges of this type at polyvalent iodine do find precedent in the literature106 and probably proceed via the tetrasubstituted iodate ions shown in equation 130. A similar mechanism was first proposed by Beringer and Chang to account for interconversions of diaryliodonium salts with aryllithium reagents (equation 131)106. 

Such studies have, thus far, been restricted to the reactions of selected alkynyliodonium salts with limited sets of nitrile oxides, nitrones, diazocarbonyl compounds and organo-... 

TABLE 7. Directory of literature references for reactions of alkynyliodonium salts with nucleophilic reagents... 

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