Aryl chlorides aminations

Hydrogen autotransfer has been shown to tolerate a wide range of functional groups, including esters, ethers, tertiary amines, aryl chlorides, aryl bromides, aryl iodides, ketals, nitroarenes, nitriles, and oxetanes. Notably, Williams reported a series of amine alleviations with alcohols in the presence of boronic esters which could be present in either the alcohol or amine starting material (Scheme 12.9). °... 

Although It IS possible to prepare aryl chlorides and aryl bromides by electrophilic aromatic substitution it is often necessary to prepare these compounds from an aromatic amine The amine is converted to the corresponding diazonmm salt and then treated with copper(I) chloride or copper(I) bromide as appropriate... 

With phenols, thionyl chloride forms the aryl chlorides only in exceptional cases, eg, with ttinitrophenol (picric acid). The reaction of thionyl chloride with primary amines produces thionylamines. 

For the in situ preparation of the required arenediazonium salt from an aryl amine by application of the diazotization reaction, an acid HX is used, that corresponds to the halo substituent X to be introduced onto the aromatic ring. Otherwise—e.g. when using HCl/CuBr—a mixture of aryl chloride and aryl bromide will be obtained. The copper-(l) salt 2 (chloride or bromide) is usually prepared by dissolving the appropriate sodium halide in an aqueous solution of copper-(ll) sulfate and then adding sodium hydrogensulfite to reduce copper-(ll) to copper-(1). Copper-(l) cyanide CuCN can be obtained by treatment of copper-(l) chloride with sodium cyanide. 

The equation for a net chemical reaction represents the overall transformation of reactants into products. Thus, thallium Ill) ions oxidize iron(II) ions according to Eq. (1-1), and a secondary amine reacts with an aryl chloride as in Eq. (1-2). 

More challenging are the (hetero)aryl chlorides, since they are cheaper and more widely available than the corresponding bromides and iodides. Maes et al. published the first examples of microwave-assisted Buchwald-Hartwig aminations on (hetero)aryl chlorides in a commimication in 2003 [99]. The substrates 2- and 3-chloropyridine as well as 2-chloroquinoline were smoothly coupled with N-methylaniline and p-toluidine within only 10 min using a catalyst loading of only 1 mol% (Schemes 96 and 97). The diazine... 

Independently, Caddick et al. reported microwave-assisted amination of aryl chlorides using a palladium-N-heterocyclic carbene complex as the catalyst (Scheme 99) [lOlj. Initial experiments in a domestic microwave oven (reflux conditions) revealed that the solvent is crucial for the reaction. The Pd source also proved very important, since Pd(OAc)2 at high power in DMF gave extensive catalyst decomposition and using it at medium and low power gave no reaction at all. Pd(dba)2/imidazohum salt (1 mol% catalyst loading) in DME with the addition of some DMF was found to be suitable. Oil bath experiments indicated that only thermal effects are governing the amination reactions. 

We have investigated the arylation of different primary or secondary amines with different aryl chlorides or bromides in heterogeneous or homogeneous catalysis conditions using palladium(O) or palladium(II) derivatives (Fig. 5). 

We synthesized uniform CU2O coated Cu nanoparticles from the thermal decomposition of copper acetylacetonate, followed by air oxidation. We successfully used these nanoparticles for the catalysts for Ullmann type amination coupling reactions of aryl chlorides. We synthesized core/shell-like Ni/Pd bimetallic nanoparticles from the consecutive thermal decomposition of metal-surfactant complexes. The nanoparticle catalyst was atom-economically applied for various Sonogashira coupling reactions. 

Synthesis of CU2O coated Cu nanoparticles and their successful applications to Ullmann-type amination coupling reactions of aryl chlorides... 

The first examples utilising A-heterocyclic carbenes as ligands in the Buchwald-Hartwig amination involved the in situ formation of the catalyst from the corresponding imidazolium salt and a Pd(0) source. Nolan reported IPr-HCl/PdjCdbalj as a catalytic system for the amination of aryl chlorides in excellent yields, using different types of amines, anilines, and also imines or indoles [142,143] (Scheme 6.46). Hartwig showed later that in some cases the reactions could be performed at room temperature and without anhydrous conditions even for aryl chlorides [ 144]. This was later shown for the less challenging bromides and iodides [145,146]. 

However, modification of the allyl fragment by substitution of one of the terminus positions has provided more active complexes by enabling a more facile activation step [159], This allows the coupling of highly hindered amines with hindered aryl chlorides at room temperature and with low catalyst loadings [160] (Scheme 6.48). 

However, the Buchwald-Hartwig reaction with NHCs as hgands is not limited to palladium. Nickel has also been successfully employed in this catalytic amination. In situ procedures have been described for the coupling of aryl chlorides [163] and tosylates [164] and, more interestingly, anisoles [165]. The use of well-defined Ni(0) catalysts has also been studied [166] (Scheme 6.49). 

Fagnou and co-workers reported on the use of a palladium source in the presence of different phosphine ligands for the intramolecular direct arylation reaction of arenes with bromides [56]. Later, they discovered that new conditions employing palladium complex 27 promoted the direct arylation of a broad range of aryl chlorides to form six- and five-membered ring biaryls including different functionalities as ether, amine, amide and alkyl (Scheme 7.11) [57]. 

Activated aryl chlorides, which are close in reactivity to unactivated aryl bromides, underwent reaction with the original P(o-tol)3-ligated catalyst.58 Nickel complexes, which catalyze classic C—C bond-forming cross-couplings of aryl chlorides, 9-64 also catalyzed aminations of aryl chlorides under mild conditions.65,66 However, the nickel-catalyzed chemistry generally occurred with lower turnover numbers and with a narrower substrate scope than the most efficient palladium-catalyzed reactions. 

Complexes ligated by the unsaturated carbene at the top right of Figure 2, catalyze the reaction of aryl chlorides with a variety of amines, including primary amines at 100°C and the reactions of aryl... 

A variety of triazole-based monophosphines (ClickPhos) 141 have been prepared via efficient 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of readily available azides and acetylenes and their palladium complexes provided excellent yields in the amination reactions and Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reactions of unactivated aryl chlorides <06JOC3928>. A novel P,N-type ligand family (ClickPhine) is easily accessible using the Cu(I)-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition reaction and was tested in palladium-catalyzed allylic alkylation reactions <06OL3227>. Novel chiral ligands, (S)-(+)-l-substituted aryl-4-(l-phenyl) ethylformamido-5-amino-1,2,3-triazoles 142,... 

Utilizing more reactive discrete palladium-N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) complexes (for example, Pd(carb)2) or in situ generated palladium/imidazolium salt complexes (1 mol% ligand A), Caddick and coworkers were able to extend the rapid amination protocols described above to electron-rich aryl chlorides (Scheme 6.61) [128],... 

Scheme 6.61 Buchwald-Hartwig amination reactions of aryl chlorides.

Independent investigations by Maes and coworkers have involved the use of commercially available and air-stable 2-(dicydohexylphosphanyl)biphenyl (ligand B) as a ligand system for the successful and rapid coupling of (hetero)aryl chlorides with amines under microwave Buchwald-Hartwig conditions (0.5-2 mol% palladium catalyst) [129, 130]. Both methods provide very high yields of products within an irradiation time of 10 min. 

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