Aryl ethers directed metalation

The substrate can be prepared by standard etherification reaction of a phenol derivative with a propargylic halide [lb]. Further carbon-carbon bond forming reactions of the terminal acetylenic carbon via metal acetylide provides a variety of substituted propargyl aryl ethers. Direct preparation using substituted propargyl ether is also possible. 

Regioselective substitution reactions of a series of 2- and 3-hydroxybiaryls including BINOL have been performed via a new directed orf/io-metallation procedure.75 O-Aryl AMsopropylcarbamates, conveniently prepared from phenols and isopropyl isocyanate, have been temporarily and in situ N-protected by means of silyl inflates to form stable intermediates for low-temperature lithiation reactions using n-BuLi-TMEDA in diethyl ether. The IV,IV-dialkyl aryl O-sulfamate has been reported as a new directed metallation group.76... 

Nucleophilic aromatic substitution reactions of haloarenes complexed to transition metal moieties with oxygen-, sulfin-, and nitrogen-containing nucleophiles allows for the synthesis of a wide variety of aryl ethers, thioethers, and amines. These metal-mediated reactions proceed under very mild conditions and allow for the incorporation of a number of different functional groups. Nucleophilic substitution reactions of chloroarenes complexed to the cyclopentadienyliron moiety have been the focus of many studies directed toward the design of functionalized organic monomers. ... 

One of the largest uses for lithium metal is in the synthesis of organolithium compounds which are of immense utility, generally resembling Grignard reagents, but more reactive.39 They are commonly made by direct interaction of Li with an alkyl or aryl chloride in ether, benzene, or alkanes ethers are slowly attacked, however, by LiR. 

Alkoxides and aryloxides have been intensively studied because of their interest, especially for Ba, as precursors to oxide materials having desirable electronic properties this development was stimulated by the discovery of superconducting materials such as YBajG CVx. The same interest applies to other volatile complexes like /3-diketonates. The alkyl or aryl oxides (also siloxides) are readily obtained by a variety of methods, notably (a) direct interaction of the metals with ROH in THF, toluene saturated with NH3,22 or other ether solvents (b) the interaction of... 

Since aryl-0 bond energy is in the order of 90 kcal/mol and greater than the alkyl-O bond energy ( 80 kcal/mol), the first site expected to be cleaved in aryl alkyl ethers is the alkyl-oxygen bond. A recent paper by Milstein et al. reports that the point of cleavage can be directed by using different metal complexes (Eq.34) [81]. 

Stable but as with the imidazolide it may be protected as the TBS ether to improve its stability. The pyrrole carbinol is sufficiently stable as the lithium salt that aryl halides may be metalated with BuLi. These derivatives may also be converted directly to a,P-unsat-urated esters using the Wadsworth-Horner-Emmons olefination using the Masamune-Roush protocol. Deprotection is accomplished with catalytic DBU or NaOMe. ... 

Deprotonation of ethers is another route to the a-alkoxy anions, but this pathway is often precluded by a kinetic barrier. Unless the a-carbon is benzylic [175], surmounting this barrier usually requires conditions that are not favorable to the survival of the anion [164]. Notable exceptions are the hindered aryl esters studied by Beak [176], Figure 3.13a, and the carbamates studied by Hoppe [177], shown in Figure 3.13b. In both cases, ec-butyllithium is required for deprotonation, and the carbonyls which direct the metalation by a complex-induced proximity effect [178] must be shielded from the base by large alkyl groups. Once formed, the organo-lithiums are chelated and stabilized by the heteroatom-induced dipole [179]. 

A radical cation is involved in the direct synthesis of chromans by an intramolecular oxidative cyclisation of 3-arylpropanols 32 brought about by a hypervalent iodine(III) reagent <04TL2293> and iodonium species catalyse the intramolecular arylation of alkenes which yields iodo-substituted chromans 33 <04JA3416>. 3-Allenylchroman-4-ols result from a one-pot reaction between salicylaldehydes and 1,4-dibromobut-2-yne in which the intramolecular cyclisation of the intermediate ether is mediated by In metal <04SL45>... 

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