Aryl halides generation

Ni and Pd catalysts were found to be most useful for this purpose [35]. Palladium catalysed reactions show better chemoselectivity, but are restricted to activated aryl bromides while nickel-catalysed processes are more tolerant to steric hindrance of aromatic substituents [36]. These reactions are the best alternative to Ni(0) catalysed high temperature coupling of aryl halides [37]. With stericaly hindered aryl halides generation of a Grignard reagent is recommended. Preferably the component with an ortho substituents should be converted the Grignard compound[38]. 

The general reaction mechanism has been shown to involve typical steps for cross-coupling [98, 113]. Oxidative addition of an aryl halide generates a Pd(II) species that undergoes transmetalation to form a Pd(II)-thiolate. C-S reductive elimination provides the aryl sulfide and regenerates the Pd(0) catalyst. More recently, Hartwig reported a detailed mechanistic analysis of the Pd/Josiphos system derived from different Pd precursors. The dominant Pd species were found to be off the catalytic cycle, which accounted for differences in rates between stoichiometric and catalytic reactions [114]. Thioketones are also effective thiolate nucleophiles for C-S bond formation. The reaction involves tandem Pd-catalyzed thioenolate alkylation, followed by 5-arylation (8) [102]. Presumably, the arylation process proceeds by a similar mechanism to related Pd-catalyzed transformations. 

Mechanism of the arylamine formation is the following. Oxidative addition of aryl halide generates the arylpalladium 6, to which an amine coordinates. Abstraction of proton from the coordinated amine with a base (BM) affords the arylpalladium amide 7, and its reductive elimination yields the arylamine 8. Reductive elimination of 7 is a rate-determining step. A path, competitive to the path from 7 to 8, is jS-H elimination to give the imine 9 and the Pd hydride 10, and the reduced arene 11 is formed by reductive elimination of 10. This is a serious side reaction. The elimination of jS-H may be minimized by the use of chelating ligands. 

Electroreduction of aryl halides generates aryl anion, which also acts as EGB. For example, the electroreduction of iodobenzene (Ph-I) gives phenyl anion, which deprotonates fluoroform. The trifluoromethyl anion derived from the fluoroform reacts with aldehydes to give the trifluoromethylated alcohols as coupling products (Eqs. 18 and 19) [13]. 

The reactions of the second class are carried out by the reaction of oxidized forms[l] of alkenes and aromatic compounds (typically their halides) with Pd(0) complexes, and the reactions proceed catalytically. The oxidative addition of alkenyl and aryl halides to Pd(0) generates Pd(II)—C a-hondi (27 and 28), which undergo several further transformations. 

An Q-arylalkanoate is prepared by the reaction of aryl halide or triflate with the ketene silyl acetal 74 as an alkene component. However, the reaction is explained by transmetallation of Ph - Pd—Br with 74 to generate the Pd eno-late 75, which gives the a-arylalkanoate by reductive elimination[76]. 

The 2-substituted 3-acylindoles 579 are prepared by carbonylative cycliza-tion of the 2-alkynyltrifluoroacetanilides 576 with aryl halides or alkenyl tri-flates. The reaction can be understood by the aminopalladation of the alkyne with the acylpalladium intermediate as shown by 577 to generate 578, followed by reductive elimination to give 579[425]. 

Ullman type coupling occurs between aryl halides and trifluoromethyl copper species generated by the action of copper iodide on sodium tnfluoroacetate [168, 169] or on methyl fluorosulfonyldifluoroacetate [170] (equation 145) Similarly the pentafluoroethyl group can be introduced from potassium pentafluoropropion-ate [171] (equation 146)... 

The possible mechanism for the reactions involving stoichiometric amount of preformed Ni(0) complexes is shown in Fig. 9.8. The first step of the mechanism involves the oxidative addition of aryl halides to Ni(0) to form aryl Ni(II) halides. Disproportion of two aryl Ni(II) species leads to a diaryl Ni(II) species and a Ni(II) halide. This diaryl Ni(II) species undergoes rapid reductive elimination to form the biaryl product. The generated Ni(0) species can reenter the catalytic cycle. 

Nolan and colleagues published in 1999 the first coupling between aryl chlorides, bromides or iodides and aryl Grignards, in which an in situ generated NHC-Pd complex served as catalyst. The reaction proceeded in most cases in excellent yields, however, very sterically hindered products formally derived from aryl halides and aryl Grignards both possessing orf/io-substituents could not be obtained [75] (Scheme 6.16). 

The Pd-catalyzed amination of aryl halides had rapidly become one of the most important methods to synthesize substituted aiylamines. Since its discovery in 1995, thanks to two independent studies by Buchwald and Hartwig, it has generated a... 

Organocadmium compounds can be prepared from Grignard reagents or organo-lithium compounds by reaction with Cd(II) salts.180 They can also be prepared directly from alkyl, benzyl, and aryl halides by reaction with highly reactive cadmium metal generated by reduction of Cd(II) salts.181... 

Arylcopper intermediates can be generated from organolithium compounds, as in the preparation of cuprates.95 These compounds react with a second aryl halide to provide unsymmetrical biaryls in a reaction that is essentially a variant of the cuprate alkylation process discussed on p. 680. An alternative procedure involves generation of a mixed diarylcyanocuprate by sequential addition of two different aryllithium reagents to CuCN, which then undergo decomposition to biaryls on exposure to oxygen.96 The second addition must be carried out at very low temperature to prevent equilibration with the symmetrical diarylcyanocuprates. 

Good yields of chlorides have also been obtained for reaction of isolated diazonium tetrafluoroborates with FeCl2-FeCl3 mixtures.100 It is also possible to convert anilines to aryl halides by generating the diazonium ion in situ. Reaction of anilines with alkyl nitrites and Cu(II) halides in acetonitrile gives good yields of aryl chlorides and bromides.101... 

The reaction can be carried out efficiently using aryl diazonium tetrafluoroborates with crown ethers, polyethers, or phase transfer catalysts.103 In solvents that can act as halogen atom donors, the radicals react to give aryl halides. Bromotrichloromethane gives aryl bromides, whereas methyl iodide and diiodomethane give iodides.104 The diazonium ions can also be generated by in situ methods. Under these conditions bromoform and bromotrichloromethane have been used as bromine donors and carbon tetrachloride is the best chlorine donor.105 This method was used successfully for a challenging chlorodeamination in the vancomycin system. 

Recently, a Pd/Cu-catalyzed three-component coupling reaction of aryl halides, norbomadiene, and alkynols was reported to generate 2,3-disubstituted norbomenes in high yields in the presence of aqueous NaOH and a phase-transfer catalyst in toluene at 100°C (Eq. 3.39).151... 

Determination of the rate constant of the oxidative addition of aryl halides with Pd°(PPh3)4 or with the Pd° complexes generated from Pd°(dba)2 and one equivalent of dppp shows that the oxidative addition is slower for ort/zo-substituted aryl halides than for the corresponding non-substituted or meta-substituted aryl halides.870... 

The generated palladium chlorides possessing phosphinous acid ligands were found to be remarkably active and efficient catalysts in the presence of bases for a variety of cross-coupling reactions of aryl halides with aiylboronic... 

Second Generation Catalysts Bearing Aromatic Bisphosphines 9.73.2.1 Animation of aryl halides... 

Indoles, pyrroles, and carbazoles themselves are suitable substrates for palladium-catalyzed coupling with aryl halides. Initially, these reactions occurred readily with electron-poor aryl halides in the presence of palladium and DPPF, but reactions of unactivated aryl bromides were long, even at 120 °C. Complexes of sterically hindered alkylmonophosphines have been shown to be more active catalysts (Equation (25)). 8 102 103 In the presence of these more active catalysts, reactions of electron-poor or electron-rich aryl bromides and electron-poor or electron-neutral aryl chlorides occurred at 60-120 °C. Reactions catalyzed by complexes of most of the /-butylphosphines generated a mixture of 1- and 3-substituted indoles. In addition, 2- and 7-substituted indoles reacted with unhindered aryl halides at both the N1 and C3 positions. The 2-naphthyl di-t-butylphosphinobenzene ligand in Equation (25), however, generated a catalyst that formed predominantly the product from A-arylation in these cases. 

A remarkable process was reported by Mori that forms aniline from dinitrogen (Equation (26)).106 Titanium nitrogen fixation complexes were generated from reactions of titanium tetrachloride or tetraisopropoxide, lithium metal, TMS chloride, and dinitrogen. These complexes generated a mixture of aryl and diarylamines in yields as high as 80% when treated with aryl halide and a palladium catalyst containing DPPF ... 

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