Aryl halides catalysed cross-coupling with

The Reformatsky reagents, i.e. zinc enolates of esters, undergo Ni catalysed cross-coupling with aryl halides.53 The Ni catalysed reaction of arylzincs with a-bromoacetates also permits a-arylation of esters54 (Scheme 11.13). However, a-alkenylation of enolates of ketones, aldehydes, and esters has been less satisfactory. Its further development is clearly desirable. Alternatively, a-alkenylation of a-iodoenones in conjunction with conjugate reduction discussed earlier should be considered. 

Negishi and his co-workers have developed several approaches to allylated arenes involving cross-coupling reactions. Preliminary studies established that aryl-aluminium, zirconium, or zinc compounds readily undergo palladium-catalysed cross-coupling with allylic halides or acetates (Scheme 19). Later in the year it was shown that allylic alcohol derivatives containing OAlR2,... 

Alkyl halides other than aryl and vinyl halides do not readily undergo oxidative addition with Pd and must, in general, first be converted to alkylmetals. In this connection, however, a recent report on the Ni catalysed selective alkyl-alkyl cross-coupling with Ni(acac)2 and Lil in THF represents a significant breakthrough.34 In cases where the alkyl group contains a p-H atom, reduction of the organic halide via p-dehydropalladation reductive elimination can be a serious side-reaction (Scheme 11.6). 

The synthesis starts with 2,4-dibromothiazole (40), a regioselective Pd(0)-catalysed cross coupling step introduces a substituent at the 2-position. Alkyl or aryl zinc halides were employed as the nucleophiles to give 41. The 4-bromothiazole derivative 41 was then converted into a carbon nucleophile either as a zinc derivative (Negishi conditions) or as a tin derivative (Stille conditions) which then underwent a second cross coupling reaction with 2,4-dibromothiazole (40) to give exclusively 2 ,4-disubstituted 2,4 -bithiazoles 42. 

Catalysed cross-coupling of organomagnesium compounds with vinylic and aryl halides... 

The palladium-catalysed cross-coupling of aryl halides or vinyl halides with dialkyl phosphonates (31) to yield dialkyl arylphosphonates and dialkyl vinylphosphonates, respectively, was first reported by Hirao and co-workers 69 the halides used most frequently are bromides and the reaction is stereospecific with haloalkenes. Subsequently, analogous reactions of alkyl alkylphosphinates (32), alkyl arylphosphinates (32), alkyl phosphinates (33), and secondary phosphine oxides (34), replacing [P—H] bonds with [P—C] bonds to yield various phosphinates and tertiary phosphine oxides, have been developed (Figure 7.1). Alkyl phosphinates (33) may be mono- or diarylated as desired by the selection of appropriate conditions. Aiyl and vinyl triflates have also found limited... 

Terminal arylalkynes can be prepared by oxidation-decarbonylation of 3-arylpropargyl alcohols using manganese dioxide in the presence of alkali. The corresponding arylpiopargyl dcohols are available by palladium-catalysed cross-coupling of aryl halides with commercial propargyl alcohol. The yield of the second step can be improved by the addition of a phase-transfer catalyst (18-crown-6 Scheme 18). ... 

Scheme 13.1 Iron-catalysed cross-coupling reactions of aryl halides with benzene.

Scheme 14.7 Ni-catalysed cross-couplings of aryl bromides with tertiary alkylmag-nesium halides. Ratio of retention product to isomerisation products in parentheses. The reaction was warmed to room temperature and stirred overnight (10 h).

The nickel- and palladium-catalysed cross-coupling reactions of arylmetallics with aryl halides proceed by the following reaction mechanism and include the following three fundamental processes ... 

Diarylmercurials, Ar2Hg, undergo the palladium-catalysed cross-coupling reactions with aryl halides, preferably iodides, to give biaryls in high yields. Scheme 36. 

The dioxaborole (97), formed from catecholborane and ethojqracetylene, undergoes a Pd-catalysed cross-coupling reaction with aryl or benzyl halides RX to give the vinyl ethers (98). Since these vinyl ethers can readily be hydrolysed to aldehydes (99), the overall sequence provides an efficient method for converting halides into aldehydes with two more carbon atoms. Also on the subject of boronic acid chemistry, a number of syntheses of the useful intermediates (100) have been published. ... 

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