Aryl triflates cross-coupling reactions

Heck reaction, palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions between organohalides or triflates with olefins (72JOC2320), can take place inter- or intra-molecularly. It is a powerful carbon-carbon bond forming reaction for the preparation of alkenyl- and aryl-substituted alkenes in which only a catalytic amount of a palladium(O) complex is required. 

Transition metal-catalyzed transformations are of major importance in synthetic organic chemistry [1], This reflects also the increasing number of domino processes starting with such a reaction. In particular, Pd-catalyzed domino transformations have seen an astounding development over the past years with the Heck reaction [2] - the Pd-catalyzed transformation of aryl halides or triflates as well as of alkenyl halides or triflates with alkenes or alkynes - being used most often. This has been combined with another Heck reaction or a cross-coupling reaction [3] such as Suzuki, Stille, and Sonogashira reactions. Moreover, several examples have been published with a Tsuji-Trost reaction [lb, 4], a carbonylation, a pericyclic or an aldol reaction as the second step. 

Triarylbismuth compounds can be used in cross-coupling reactions with aryl iodides, bromides, or triflates in the presence of Pd(PPh3)4 and CsF or K2C03.174... 

The palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction featured in this procedure occurs under neutral conditions in the presence of many synthetically useful functional groups (e.g. alcohol, ester, nitro, acetal, ketone, and aldehyde). The reaction works best in N,N-dimethylformamide with bis(triphenylphosphine)palladium(ll) chloride, PdCI2(PPh3)2, as the catalyst. Lithium chloride is added to prevent decomposition of the catalyst.143 13 It is presumed that conversion of the intermediate aryl palladium triflate to an aryl palladium chloride is required for the transmetallation step to proceed.9... 

An application of Stille couplings to the solid phase using a traceless A-glycerol linker with 2-stannylindoles has been developed [177]. Only a few examples of the use of 3-stannylindoles in Stille reactions have been described. Ortar and co-workers prepared 169 and 170 and effected Pd-catalyzed cross coupling reactions with several aryl, heteroaryl, and vinyl substrates (bromides, iodides, triflates) to give the expected products 171 in high yields [178]. Enol triflates behave exceptionally well under the Ortar conditions, e.g., 172 to 173. 

One of the first cross-coupling reactions performed on solid supports was the Stille reaction [250] which is a paUadium-catalyzed reaction of a trialkylaryl or trialkylalkenyl stannane with an aromatic iodide, bromide or triflate. In contrast to the process in liquid-phase, the organotin reagent is easily removed from the solid-phase because of the subsequent washing processes. Immobilized aryl halides have been frequently coupled with aryl and alkenylstannanes, whereas stan-nanes attached to the solid support have been used less frequently for the StiUe reaction. An example is the synthesis of a benzodiazepine library by EUman et al. Recently, a Stille cross-couphng reaction has been employed in the synthesis of al-kenyldiarylmethanes (ADAM) series of non-nucleoside HlV-1 Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors (Scheme 3.14) [251]. 

The palladium-catalyzed arylation and alkenylation of terminal alkynes with aryl or alkenyl hahdes in presence of a copper(l) co-catalyst is called Sonogashira reaction. In the same way as in the other cross-coupling reactions described before, it is possible to immobihze the alkyne or the aromatic bromides, iodides or triflates on sohd supports (Scheme 3.15). 

Scheme 28 Cross-coupling reaction of organobismuth alkoxides with aryl triflates...

Hypervalent organobismuth compounds 1 bearing a 2,6-pyridinedialkoxide ligand [43] were used for the cross-coupling reaction with aryl triflates (Scheme 28) [44], Phenylation using phenylbismuth compounds smoothly proceeded for the reactive... 

The similar cross-coupling reaction of compounds 1 with aryl iodides was less sensitive to the electronic nature of the substrates than that with aryl triflates i.e., electron-deficient 4 -iodoacetophenone and electron-rich 4-iodoanisole afforded the cross-coupling products in 96% and 55% yields, respectively (Scheme 29) [45]. The addition of cesium salts improved the product yields considerably. Aryl bromides were less efficient than aryl iodides, and addition of cesium salts was necessary to improve the product yields. 

Scheme 30 Cross-coupling reaction of Ar3Bi with aryl halides and triflates...

A recent report has shown that tricyclopropylbismuth can be utilized in the cross-coupling reaction with aryl halides and triflates [57]. Representative examples are shown in Scheme 38. Addition of a base activator and excess of the bismuth reagents are necessary to obtain the coupling products in good yields, although more than one cyclopropyl group was transferred when 0.5 equivalents of... 

Mowery and DeShong used the commercially available hypervalent silicate complex TBAT as a phenylating agent for the cross-coupling reaction with allylic esters. They later reported on the use of the same organosilane for the coupling with aryl iodides and triflates and electron-deficient aryl bromides. The reactions were catalyzed by either Pd(dba)2 or [Pd(allyl)Cl]2 without the need of added phosphine ligands. 

It was also discovered that aryl and vinyl iodides, bromides, and triflates participated efficiently in cross-coupling reactions with organostannanes when catalyzed by palladlum-on-carbon in the presence of Cu(l) as cocatalyst.1... 

Aryl fluorosulfonates have recently been reported as less expensive alternatives to aryl triflates. Compound 3 has been synthesized in 50% isolated yield using 4-nitrophenyl fluorosulfonate as the electrophilic partner in the cross-coupling reaction. Roth, G. P. Fuller, C. E. J. Org. Cham. 1991,56,3493-3496. 

Cross-coupling reactions of alkenylsilicates 114 with aryl or vinyl halides or triflates are catalyzed by a palladium complex to give the corresponding alkenes (equation 92)173. 

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