Aryl halides bromobenzene

Step 1. Oxidative addition of the aryl halide, bromobenzene in this example, to the Pd(0) catalyst occurs when palladium(II) inserts into the C—Br bond of bromobenzene. 

Ullman reaction The synthesis of diaryls by the condensation of aromatic halides with themselves or other aromatic halides, with the concomitant removal of halogens by a metal, e.g. copper powder thus bromobenzene gives diphenyl. The reaction may be extended to the preparation of diaryl ethers and diaryl thio-ethers by coupling a metal phenolate with an aryl halide. 

When allylic alcohols are used as an alkene component in the reaction with aryl halides, elimination of /3-hydrogen takes place from the oxygen-bearing carbon, and aldehydes or ketones are obtained, rather than y-arylated allylic alcohoIs[87,88]. The reaction of allyl alcohol with bromobenzene affords dihydrocinnamaldehyde. The reaction of methallyl alcohol (96) with aryl halides is a good synthetic method for dihydro-2-methylcinnamaldehyde (97). 

Another method for the hydrogenoiysis of aryl bromides and iodides is to use MeONa[696], The removal of chlorine and bromine from benzene rings is possible with MeOH under basic conditions by use of dippp as a ligand[697]. The reduction is explained by the formation of the phenylpalladium methoxide 812, which undergoes elimination of /i-hydrogen to form benzene, and MeOH is oxidized to formaldehyde. Based on this mechanistic consideration, reaction of alcohols with aryl halides has another application. For example, cyclohex-anol (813) is oxidized smoothly to cyclohexanone with bromobenzene under basic conditions[698]. 

For the synthesis of a suitable arylboron compound, usually an aryl halide is converted to an aryllithium or aryl Grignard derivative, and then reacted with a trialkoxyborane to yield an arylboronic ester, e.g. the phenylboronic acid diisopropyl ester 13 from bromobenzene 11 ... 

The only reported reaction of a simple aryl halide is that of bromobenzene with [Co (BAE)], which appears to be one of the most nucleophilic Co(I) complexes 46, 16). a-Iodopyridine also reacts with [Co(CN),)H] (75). 

Besides benzyl chloride, methyl- and/or chlorine-substituted benzyl chlorides, phenethyl chloride, etc. are also successfully employed to give 2 -diaralkylaminofluorans in excellent yield. However, aryl halides such as chlorobenzene and bromobenzene hardly enable the reaction, though aryl iodides such as iodobenzene give 2 -diarylaminofluorans in low yield. 

Fig. 5 Electrochemical reduction of aryl halides showing the variation of the apparent transfer coefficient with the scan rate. iodobenzene, O bromobenzene, V 1-iodonaphthalene, O 4-methyliodobenzene, at 298 K, iodobenzene at 329 K.

Aryl halides can also be reduced by tin hydrides76,77, although these reactions always require initiators because the stronger C—X bonds in aryl halides are less reactive than the C—X bonds in alkyl halides. In fact, a series of meta- and para-substituted bromobenzenes, where X is either meta- or para-CH3O-, C=N, Cl, F, CF3, CH3, Bu-f or 2,6-dichloro, have been reduced by tributyltin deuteride (equation 60). It is worth noting that the more reactive bromide is reduced selectively in the presence of the less reactive chloride and fluoride groups (equation 61). 

Arylation of C-H bonds is achieved by coupling reactions of C-H bonds with aromatic compounds such as halides, triflates, and organometallic reagents. Early works in this field involve the reaction of aryl halides with norbornene. As shown in Scheme 5, the coupling reaction of bromobenzene with norbornene in the presence of Pd(PPh3)4 as a... 

Nickel(O) triphenylphosphine can be used to couple aryl halides and alkenes to synthesize substituted olefins [149], 1,2-bis[(di-2-propylphosphino)benzene]nick-el(0) can be used to couple aryl halides [150], and l,2-bis[(diphenylphos-phino)ethane]nickel(0) can be used to prepare benzoic acid from bromobenzene in the presence of carbon dioxide [151]. 

Very few transition-metal catalyzed electroreductive carbon-heteroatom bond formations have been described. The electrochemical silylation of allylic acetates was carried out in the presence of Pd-PPha [131]. The electrosynthesis of arylthioethers from thiophenol and aryl halides [132] and the coupling of bromobenzene with dichlorophenylphosphine [133] were performed with Ni-bpy as catalyst. 

Successful lithiation of aryl halides—carbocyclic or heterocyclic—with alkyUithiums is, however, the exception rather than the rule. The instability of ortholithiated carbocyclic aryl halides towards benzyne formation is always a limiting feature of their use, and aryl bromides and iodides undergo halogen-metal exchange in preference to deprotonation. Lithium amide bases avoid the second of these problems, but work well only with aryl halides benefitting from some additional acidifying feature. Chlorobenzene and bromobenzene can be lithiated with moderate yield and selectivity by LDA or LiTMP at -75 or -100 °C . 

As the last example of C-C bond-formation reactions catalyzed by alkaline earth hydroxides, we mention the recently reported a-arylation of diethyl malonate in the presence of a palladium catalyst and a base in a separate phase 299). The arylation of carbonyl compounds is a carbon-carbon coupling reaction between an aryl halide and an enolate, which is usually catalyzed by palladium salts in the presence of an appropriate base (300,301). The arylation of diethyl malonate with bromobenzene (Scheme 48) was performed with tetrachloropalladate as the... 

Subsequently, a copper-catalyzed cross-coupling [with substoichiometric amounts of copper(l) iodide and N,N -dimethylethylenediamine (DMEDA)] between aryl halides and sulfoximines was developed [52]. In this case, both aryl bromides and aryl iodides reacted well. For the conversion of the former substrates an in-situ copper-catalyzed aryl Finkelstein reaction [53] had to be performed first, as shown in Scheme 2.1.1.22 for the preparation of 64 starting from bromobenzene (62). 

The synthetic utility of many of the substitution reactions described so far is limited because there are well-established thermal routes to the same products. However, a third group of photochemical nucleophilic substitutions involves aryl halides and nucleophiles based on sulfur, phosphorus or, of particular importance, carbon. Two examples are the reaction of bromobenzene with the anion of t-butyl methyl ketone 13.12), and the replacement of bromine by cyanomethyl in 2-bromopyridine (3.13). This type of reaction offers a clear advantage over lengthy thermal alternatives, and intramolecular versions have been used in the synthesis of indoles (e.g. 3.14) or benzofurans from o-iodoaniline or o-iodoanisole respectively. 

SAMPLE SOLUTION (a) Bromobenzene is an aryl halide and is unreactive toward nucleophilic substitution by cyanide ion. The route QHsBr C6H5CN C6HSC02H fails because the first step fails. The route proceeding through the Grignard reagent is perfectly satisfactory and appears as an experiment in a number of introductory organic chemistry laboratory texts. 

Among the ortho substituted aryl halides, o-dichlorobenzene and o-chlorobenzonitrile did not react while o-fluorochlorobenzene and bro-momesitylene gave the nitrile in poor yield. The highest catalytic efficiency obtained in the case of bromobenzene was about 110 moles of... 

Aryl halides have a halogen directly bonded to a carbon of an aromatic ring. Examples are bromobenzene, fluorobenzene, and 2,4-dichloromethylbenzene ... 

The mechanism of this type of reaction has been studied extensively, and much evidence has accumulated in support of a stepwise process, which proceeds first by base-catalyzed elimination of hydrogen halide (HX) from the aryl halide—as illustrated below for the amination of bromobenzene ... 

In previous discussions (Section 14-6A) we stated that it is not possible to displace halogen from simple aryl halides such as bromobenzene by simple Sn2 reactions using amines or other weakly basic nucleophiles at ordinary temperatures ... 

An interesting case is provided by the nitration of aryl halides where the effect of the halogen is to deactivate the aromatic nucleus (by the -I effect) but to direct the incoming nitronium ion to the ortho and para positions as a result of the mesomeric interaction of the halogen lone electron pair with the charge developed in the corresponding intermediates [e.g. (5), in the formation of p-bromonitrobenzene from bromobenzene, Expt 6.20],... 

Aryl halide derivatives of benzene and toluene have many uses in chemical synthesis as pesticides and raw materials for pesticides manufacture, solvents, and a diverse variety of other applications. These widespread uses over many decades have resulted in substantial human exposure and environmental contamination. Three example aryl halides are shown in Figure 1.17. Monochlorobenzene is a flammable liquid boiling at 132°C. It is used as a solvent, heat transfer fluid, and synthetic reagent. Used as a solvent, 1,2-dichlorobenzene is employed for degreasing hides and wool. It also serves as a synthetic reagent for dye manufacture. Bromobenzene is a liquid boiling at 156°C that is used as a solvent, motor oil additive, and intermediate for organic synthesis. 

Alkyl aryl ketones are known to be arylated at the a-position of the alkyl groups, via the corresponding enolates, by treatment with aryl halides in the presence of palladium catalysts [4, 9]. The ortho arylation of alkyl aryl ketones is also possible. For example, in the reaction of benzyl phenyl ketones with bromobenzenes, the arylation first occurs at the benzylic position the ortho positions are then arylated via C-H bond cleavage (Eq. 8) [15]. The ortho arylation is believed to occur after coordination of the enol oxygen to ArPd(II), which is followed by ortho palladation as in the reaction of 2-phenylphenols shown in Scheme 2. 

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