Aromatic bond activation

All lation. Maleic anhydride reacts with alkene and aromatic substrates having a C—H bond activated by a,P-unsaturation or an adjacent aromatic resonance (31,32) to produce the following succinic anhydride derivatives. 

Fuchita, Y., Utsunomiya, Y. and Yasutake, M. (2001) Synthesis and reactivity of arylgold(III) complexes from aromatic hydrocarbons via C—H bond activation. Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, (16), 2330. 

As can be seen in the scheme below, insertion reactions of aldehydes to the C-H bond of aromatic ketimines by using a rhenium catalyst provided benzo[c]furans via a mechanism involving consecutive steps of C-H bond activation, insertion of aldehyde, intramolecular nucleophilic cyclization, reductive elimination, and elimination of aniline <06JA12376>. 

Related dehydrogenation processes are known as in the aromatization of the A ring of steroids, which was achieved by using the Cp Ru+ fragment. Such a process occurs via a series of C-O, C-H and C-C bond activations (Equation (24)).34... 

The C-H bond activation followed by addition to a double bond leads to the formation of alkylated compounds (Equation (1)). This reaction involves aromatic, aliphatic, olefinic, and acetylenic C-H bonds. 

Intramolecular arylation of G-H bonds gives cyclic aromatic compounds. In this intramolecular arylation, the carbon-palladium cr-bond is first formed by the oxidative addition of Pd(0) species and then the resulting electrophilic Pd(n) species undergoes the intramolecular G-H bond activation leading to the formation of the palladacycle, which finally affords the cyclic aromatic compounds via reductive elimination.87 For example, the fluoroanthene derivative is formed by the palladium-catalyzed reaction of the binaphthyl triflate, as shown in Scheme 8.88 This type of intramolecular arylation is applied to the construction of five- and six-membered carbocyclic and heterocyclic systems.89 89 89 ... 

Recently there have been several studies on synthetic reactions via aromatic C-H bond activation. However, there are limitations that still need to be solved. The following points should be considered. 

Radical cations resulting from oxidation of olefins, aromatic compounds, amino groups, and so on, can react by electrophilic addition to a nucleophilic center as shown, for example, in Scheme 1 [2, 3]. The double bond activated by an electron-donating substituent is first oxidized leading to a radical cation that attacks the nucleophilic center. The global reaction is a two-electron process corresponding to an ECEC mechanism. 

Several arylations involving reactive alkenes such as norbomene or allenes have been reported. Togni and coworkers have shown that norbomene is selectively added to the ortho positions of phenols to produce a mixture of 30 and 31 in 69% and 13% yield, respectively, after 72 hours at 100°C (22) [108, 109]. 1,1-dimethylallene also reacts with aromatic carboxamides (33) to produce prenylation products (34) in the presence of cationic iridium complexes (23) [110]. In both cases, initial ortho C-H bond activation in arenes directed by coordinating groups followed by olefin insertion has been proposed. 

The direct silylation of arenes through C—H bond activation provides an attractive route for the synthesis of useful aromatic compounds [64]. Vaska s complex was the first of the iridium catalysts to be reported for activation of the C—H bond in benzene by Si—H of pentamethyldisiloxane to yield phenylsubstituted siloxane [65]. However, a very attractive method for the aromatic C—H silylation with disilanes has been recently reported by the groups of Ishiyama and Miyaura [66-68]. 

In previous work, Corey used the free base form of 34 as an effective chiral ligand in the Os04-promoted dihydroxylation of olefins [90]. He later found that ammonium salt 34 catalyzed the addition of HCN to aromatic N-allyl imines (Scheme 5.50) [91]. The U-shaped pocket of the catalyst is essential in fixing the orientation of the hydrogen-bonded activated aldimine via n-n interactions. 

Scheme 6.104 Key intermediates of the proposed catalytic cycle for the 100-catalyzed Michael addition of a,a-disubstituted aldehydes to aliphatic and aromatic nitroalkenes Formation of imine (A) and F-enamine (B), double hydrogen-bonding activation of the nitroalkene and nucleophilic enamine attack (C), zwitterionic structure (D), product-forming proton transfer, and hydrolysis.

The C—H bond activation of aromatic hydrocarbons is a challenging subject which makes them serve as direct feedstocks for functionalized compounds.Recently, we... 

It was also reported that treatment of -alkynyl iodides 17 and 18, having a triple bond activated by conjugation either with an aromatic ring or a double bond, with zinc dust in THF resulted in the formation of the cyclic products 19 and 20 respectively (equation 8)20. However, their formation was ascribed to a zinc-induced radical cyclization process due to the failure to detect any open-chain organozinc species prior to cyclization as well as unsuccessful attempts to efficiently functionalize any alkenylzinc species that would have been normally expected from an anionic pathway20. 

Vilsmeier reaction of 1,4-dihydrobenzoyl chlorides leads to ipso- and meta-sub-stitution products. Aromatic aldehydes are isolated as a result of aerial oxidation [30]. The allylic acceptor (COX) is responsible for the double bond activation as well as the observed regioselectivity. 

Pyrrole and indole rings can also be constructed by intramolecular addition of nitrogen to a multiple bond activated by metal ion complexation. Thus, 1-aminomethyl-l-alkynyl carbinols (obtained by reduction of cyanohydrins of acetylenic ketones) are cyclized to pyrroles by palladium(II) salts. In this reaction the palladium(II)-complexed alkyne functions as the electrophile with aromatization involving elimination of palladium(II) and water (Scheme 42) (81TL4277). 

An instance of an apparent electrophilic aromatic substitution (in this case 61 is an aromatic substrate, of Scheme 31), which actually is an electrophilic addition, is the halo-genation of 2-aminothiazole derivatives which was usually considered a simple attack of the electrophilic reagent on the heterocyclic aromatic substrate activated by the amino group see reaction 12. When the bromination of 2-aminothiazole derivatives is carried out in nucleophilic solvents (ROH) and at low temperatures, the partially saturated derivatives (64) of Scheme 33 were isolated in 80-95% yields133. By heating 64, the usual halogenated 2-aminothiazoles are obtained, as indicated by Scheme 33. An apparent electrophilic aromatic substitution is actually an addition reaction to the C=C double bond the elimination reaction is the following, separate step. 

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