Aryl halides Arylsulfonyl chlorides

Vinyl Substitutions with Carboxylic Acid Halides, Aryl Sulflnates and Arylsulfonyl Chlorides 856... 

Normally, the most practical vinyl substitutions are achieved by use of the oxidative additions of organic bromides, iodides, diazonium salts or triflates to palladium(0)-phosphine complexes in situ. The organic halide, diazonium salt or triflate, an alkene, a base to neutralize the acid formed and a catalytic amount of a palladium(II) salt, usually in conjunction with a triarylphosphine, are the usual reactants at about 25-100 C. This method is useful for reactions of aryl, heterocyclic and vinyl derviatives. Acid chlorides also react, usually yielding decarbonylated products, although there are a few exceptions. Likewise, arylsulfonyl chlorides lose sulfur dioxide and form arylated alkenes. Aryl chlorides have been reacted successfully in a few instances but only with the most reactive alkenes and usually under more vigorous conditions. Benzyl iodide, bromide and chloride will benzylate alkenes but other alkyl halides generally do not alkylate alkenes by this procedure. 

The palladium-catalyzed formation of diarylamines has been used in several contexts to form molecules with biological relevance. The ability to prepare haloarenes selectively by an ortho-metallation halogenation sequence allows for the selective delivery of an amino group to a substituted aromatic structure. Snieckus has used directed metallation to form aryl halides that were subsequently reacted with anilines to prepare diarylamines (Eq. 34)) [156]. Frost and Mendon a have reported an iterative strategy to prepare (by palladium-catalyzed chemistry) amides and sulfonamides that may act as peptidomimetics. Diarylamine units are constructed using the DPPF-ligated palladium catalysts, and the products are then acylated or sulfo-nated with 4-bromo benzoyl or arylsulfonyl chlorides [157]. 

Although aryl halides and triflates are the most commonly used arylating agents, there are successful examples where both aroyl chlorides and arylsulfonyl chlorides have been employed. Pd-catalyzed decarbonylations and desulfonylations and subsequent Heck couplings are often conducted with trialkylamines such as A-ethylmorpholine as a base, but improved yields are reported in cases in which the tertiary amine is replaced by a mixture of potassium carbonate and benzyltrioctylammonium chloride. In Table 2 two examples are given (entries 17 and 18). ... 

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