Carbon-Aryl Bond Formation

An interesting free radical carbon-carbon bond formation with concomitant elimination of a /5-thio substituent was achieved during the course of Boger s impressive synthesis of CC-1065.26-27 In the event, treatment of aryl bromide 70 (see Scheme 13) with tri-n-... 

Carbon-carbon bond formation reactions and the CH activation of methane are another example where NHC complexes have been used successfully in catalytic applications. Palladium-catalysed reactions include Heck-type reactions, especially the Mizoroki-Heck reaction itself [171-175], and various cross-coupling reactions [176-182]. They have also been found useful for related reactions like the Sonogashira coupling [183-185] or the Buchwald-Hartwig amination [186-189]. The reactions are similar concerning the first step of the catalytic cycle, the oxidative addition of aryl halides to palladium(O) species. This is facilitated by electron-donating substituents and therefore the development of highly active catalysts has focussed on NHC complexes. 

Some formations of new aryl-carbon bonds formed from aryl substrates have been considered in Chapter 10 (see 10-94, 10-105, 10-112, 10-113). 

Reaction of organic halides with alkenes catalyzed by palladium compounds (Heck-type reaction) is known to be a useful method for carbon-carbon bond formation at unsubstituted vinyl positions. The first report on the application of microwave methodology to this type of reaction was published by Hallberg et al. in 1996 [86], Recently, the palladium catalyzed Heck coupling reaction induced by microwave irradiation was reported under solventless liquid-liquid phase-transfer catalytic conditions in the presence of potassium carbonate and a small amount of [Pd(PPh3)2Cl2]-TBAB as a catalyst [87]. The arylation of alkenes with aryl iodides proceeded smoothly to afford exclusively trans product in high yields (86-93%) (Eq. 61). 

Crowe proposed that benzylidene 6 would be stabilised, relative to alkylidene 8, by conjugation of the a-aryl substituent with the electron-rich metal-carbon bond. Formation of metallacyclobutane 10, rather than 9, should then be favoured by the smaller size and greater nucleophilicity of an incoming alkyl-substituted alkene. Electron-deficient alkyl-substituents would stabilise the competing alkylidene 8, leading to increased production of the self-metathesis product. The high trans selectivity observed was attributed to the greater stability of a fra s- ,p-disubstituted metallacyclobutane intermediate. 

Palladium-catalyzed arylation of olefins and the analogous alkenylation (Heck reaction) are the useful synthetic methods for carbon-carbon bond formation.60 Although these reactions have been known for over 20 years, it was only in 1989 that the asymmetric Heck reaction was pioneered in independent work by Sato et al.60d and Carpenter et al.61 These scientists demonstrated that intramolecular cyclization of an alkenyl iodide or triflate yielded chiral cyclic compounds with approximately 45% ee. The first example of the intermolecular asymmetric Heck reaction was reported by Ozawa et al.60c Under appropriate conditions, the major product was obtained in over 96% ee for a variety of aryl triflates.62... 

The carbon-oxygen bond formation follows the same pathway. For both nitrogen-carbon and oxygen-carbon bond formation, a competing reaction is 13-hydride elimination (if a hydride is present at the heteroatom fragment), which lowers the yield and the reduced arene is obtained after reductive elimination. Reductive elimination of the C-N or C-0 fragments should be faster than 13-hydride elimination in order to avoid reduction of the aryl moiety. The side-reaction is shown at the bottom of Figure 13.25. 

Fluorosilylsubstituted aryl derivatives were found to be useful reagents for carbon-carbon bond formation via palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling with aryl halides in the presence of fluoride anions as Si—C bond activator in dimethylformamide (DMF), as well as rhodium-catalyzed 1,4-addition to a, 3-unsaturated ketones in the presence of a fluoride anion source (Equation 14.11) [66, 69, 70],... 

The redox reaction shown in Scheme 7.60 results in the formation of an amide a-radical and tetrathiafulvalene cation-radical. These initially formed a-radical and cation-radical combine to give salts of the S-arylated tetrathiafulvalene (a minor product) and C-alkylated tetrathiafulvalene (the main product). The latter demonstrates an unprecedented carbon-carbon bond formation with the cation-radical of tetrathiafulvalene the structure depicted was confirmed by single crystal x-ray analysis (Begley et al. 1994). 

The radical-cation is relatively stable when the 1-aryl group has a para-substituent and can be characterised by uv-spectroscopy [34], When this para-substituent is not present, two radical-cations dimerise by carbon-carbon bond formation at this position, followed by loss of two protons. The rate constant for this dimerization step can be deduced from the variation of the rotating disc elec-... 

Reduction of aryl substituted bis-azines in an aprotic solvent allows trapping of intermediates through intramolecular carbon-carbon bond formation as with 44 [187], Cyclization is achieved in an aprotic solvent and the process is adaptable to... 

Organophosphorus compounds. Phosphorus-carbon bond formation takes place by the reaction of various phosphorus compounds containing a P—H bond with halides or triflates. Alkylaryl- or alkenylalkylphosphinates are prepared from alkylphosphinate[638]. The optically active isopropyl alkenyl-methylphosphinate 778 is prepared from isopropyl methylphosphinate with retention[639]. The monoaryl and symmetrical and asymmetric diary lphosphi-nates 780. 781, and 782 are prepared by the reaction of the unstable methyl phosphinate 779 with different amounts of aryl iodides. Trimethyl orthoformate is added to stabilize the methyl phosphinate[640]. 

The transition metal catalyzed carbon-carbon bond formation between organomagnesium reagents and aryl (vinyl) halides has been one of the pioneering entries into cross-coupling chemistry. The reaction has been widely utilized since than in azine chemistry,22 with the limitation that the functional group tolerance of Grignard reagents is only moderate. Here only some of the more recent developments will be mentioned. 

The Suzuki coupling reaction is a powerful tool for carbon-carbon bond formation in combinatorial library production.23 Many different reaction conditions and catalyst systems have been reported for the cross-coupling of aryl triflates and aromatic halides with boronic acids in solution. After some experimentation, we found that the Suzuki cleavage of the resin-bound perfluoroalkylsulfonates proceeded smoothly by using [l,l -bis (diphenylphosphino)ferrocene]dichloropalladium(II), triethylamine, and boronic acids in dimethylformamide at 80° within 8 h afforded the desired biaryl compounds in good yields.24 The desired products are easily isolated by a simple two-phase extraction process and purified by preparative TLC to give the biaryl compounds in high purity, as determined by HPLC, GC-MS, and LC-MS analysis. 

Lithiation of aryltriazenes followed by treatment with an electrophile provides a new approach to benzylamines. The regioselectivity of the reaction can be controlled by means of the substituents on the aryl group. The reaction consists of an intramolecular carbon-carbon bond formation with the aryl ring of a lithiated alkyl group on a 3-nitrogen atom, a 1,2-proton shift, demonstrated by deuterium substitution, and the subsequent release of nitrogen gas.15... 

Biaryls are available through coupling of the aryl halide with an excess of copper at elevated temperatures (200 °C). The active species is a copper(I)-compound which undergoes oxidative addition with the second equivalent of halide, followed by reductive elimination and the formation of the aryl-aryl carbon bond. 

Oxidative addition of the Si-aryl carbon bond in the silacyclobutene ring to Pt gives the optically active intermediate Pt-complex. Further coordination of (+)-l-methyl-l-(l-naphthyl)-2,3-benzosilacyclobut-2-ene to the complex and cr-bond metathesis will provide the cyclic dimer Pt-complex. Reductive elimination from the intermediate platinum complex gives cyclic polymers and oligomers. Preference of cr-bond metathesis over reductive elimination gives polymers of higher molecular weight. The presence of EtsSiH in the system results in the formation of linear products via cr-bond metathesis. 

The hydrocyanation of alkenes [1] has great potential in catalytic carbon-carbon bond-formation because the nitriles obtained can be converted into a variety of products [2]. Although the cyanation of aryl halides [3] and carbon-hetero double bonds (aldehydes, ketones, and imines) [4] is well studied, the hydrocyanation of alkenes has mainly focused on the DuPont adiponitrile process [5]. Adiponitrile is produced from butadiene in a three-step process via hydrocyanation, isomerization, and a second hydrocyanation step, as displayed in Figure 1. This process was developed in the 1970s with a monodentate phosphite-based zerovalent nickel catalyst [6],... 

Transition metal-catalyzed cross-coupling is now recognized to be one of the most powerful carbon-carbon bond-formation reactions [1], The palladium-catalyzed coupling of aryl halides or their synthetic equivalents, for example aryl triflates, with arylmetals is very often employed in the synthesis of biaryl molecules, whose skeletons are found in a wide range of important compounds including natural products and organic functional materials [1-3]. 

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