Aryl chlorides facile coupling

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). 

Recently, the groups of Fu and Buchwald have coupled aryl chlorides with arylboronic acids [34, 35]. The methodology may be amenable to large-scale synthesis because organic chlorides are less expensive and more readily available than other organic halides. Under conventional Suzuki conditions, chlorobenzene is virtually inert because of its reluctance to oxidatively add to Pd(0). However, in the presence of sterically hindered, electron-rich phosphine ligands [e.g., P(f-Bu)3 or tricyclohexylphosphine], enhanced reactivity is acquired presumably because the oxidative addition of an aryl chloride is more facile with a more electron-rich palladium complex. For... 

It has been observed that reductive elimination can also occur for aryl-Pd-carbene complexes. Such complexes were investigated in mechanistic studies on Heck coupling and catalyst decomposition routes. Reductive elimination products with direct imidazolium-aryl coupling were observed and in one case fully characterized. Such products provide direct evidence of the Heck coupling mechanism and of intermediates in the catalytic cycle. Important mechanistic studies on the oxidative addition of aryl chlorides to a 14-electron Pd(0)(carbene)2 complex have demonstrated that oxidative addition occurs via a dissociative process and this step is probably the rate-determining step in the amination of aryl chlorides. Aryl-carbene reductive coupling was observed in this study of the amination reaction, and directly coupled aryl-imidazolium compounds were isolated. A further study on an (aryl)Pd(carbene) complex has also demonstrated that such complexes undergo facile reductive elimination to form aryl-imidazolium salt. ... 

The above examples are restricted to aryl iodides for which oxidative addition on Pd° is much more facile than with aryl chlorides (the most difficult to activate among the aryl halides) or even aryl bromides. Hartwig, Buchwald and (inter alia) have shown in the late 1990s, however, that it is also possible to couple, for instance, bulky chloroarenes with PhB(OH)2 and even bulky ArB(OH)2 by using specially designed Pd°ligands ... 

Zhang, C. Huang, J. TrudeU, M. L. Nolan, S. R 1999. Palladium-imidazol-2-ylidene complexes as catalysts for facile and efficient Suzuki cross-coupling reactions of aryl chlorides with arylboronic acids. J. Org. Chem. 64 3804-3805. 

Similar cross-coupling procedures have been used to prepare styrenes by the reaction of metalated aromatics with vinyl halides/triflates or, conversely, metalated alkenes with aromatic halides/triflates in the presence ofPd(Ph3P)4 (eq 6). Typically, ArCl are poor substrates in Pd(PPh3)4-catalyzed coupling reactions. However, by forming the chromium tricarbonyl complex of the aryl chloride, a facile coupling reaction with vinyl-stannanes can be achieved (eq 7). ... 

Preparation of aromatic amines by the reaction of aryl halides with aliphatic and aromatic amines has been regarded as a difficult reaction. Recently a facile synthetic method for aromatic amines by amination of aryl halides has been discovered, and rapid progress has occurred in the Pd-catalyzed reaction of amines with aryl halides [1]. One simple example which shows the usefulness of the new method is cited here. The commercially important arylpiperazines 1 have been synthesized by intramoleular N-alkylation of aniline derivatives with N,N-di-(2-chloroethyl)amine (2), which is highly carcinogenic. Now the amines 3 can be prepared efficiently by coupling aryl iodides, bromides or chlorides with N-substituted piperidines. This example provides a big contribution to synthetic chemistry by the new Pd-catalyzed efficient preparative method for arylamines, which are usefial in medicinal and material chemistry. 

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