ARYL TRIFLUOROMETHANESULFONATES

By careful selection of the palladium catalyst, aryl trifluoromethanesulfonates can be converted directly to benzoate esters under mild conditions (70 °C, 1 bar CO equation 31). The best catalyst appears to be Pd(OAc)2-l,3-bis(diphenylphosphino)propane and the best solvent DMF. With aromatic compounds bearing electron-withdrawing substituents carbonylations can be carried out under even milder conditions. 

The alkaloid dubamine contains a single bond between the two heteroarene units. This lond was formed in 79% yield by the generally valuable palladium-catalyzed eoupling of an ryltrimethylstannane with an aryl triflate (see section 1.6). The requisite stannane was pre-ared from l,3-benzodioxol-5-yl triflate and hexamethyldistannane with the same palladium atalyst, the triflate ester was obtained from 2(1 f/)-quinolinone and trifluoromethanesulfonic jihydride (A.M. Echavarren, 1987). An earlier attempt to perform this aryl coupling by dassical means gave a yield of only 1 %. 

The original Sonogashira reaction uses copper(l) iodide as a co-catalyst, which converts the alkyne in situ into a copper acetylide. In a subsequent transmeta-lation reaction, the copper is replaced by the palladium complex. The reaction mechanism, with respect to the catalytic cycle, largely corresponds to the Heck reaction.Besides the usual aryl and vinyl halides, i.e. bromides and iodides, trifluoromethanesulfonates (triflates) may be employed. The Sonogashira reaction is well-suited for the synthesis of unsymmetrical bis-2xy ethynes, e.g. 23, which can be prepared as outlined in the following scheme, in a one-pot reaction by applying the so-called sila-Sonogashira reaction ... 

In principle, sulfonyl compounds bearing highly-electron-accepting substituents are able to transfer the sulfonyl group as an electrophile. Thus, the exchange of aryl substituents in methyl aryl sulfones under catalysis of trifluoromethanesulfonic acid takes place258 (equation 46). This reaction represents a further example for the reversibility of Friedel-Crafts reactions. 

Diaryl sulfones can be formed by treatment of aromatic compounds with aryl sulfonyl chlorides and a Friedel-Crafts catalyst. This reaction is analogous to Friedel-Crafts acylation with carboxylic acid halides (11-14). In a better procedure, the aromatic compound is treated with an aryl sulfonic acid and P2O5 in polypho-sphoric acid. Still another method uses an arylsulfonic trifluoromethanesulfonic anhydride (ArS020S02CF3) (generated in situ from ArS02Br and CF3S03Ag) without a catalyst. ... 

CHROMIUM TRIOXIDE-PYRIDINE COMPLEX, preparation in situ, 55, 84 Chrysene, 58,15, 16 fzans-Cinnamaldehyde, 57, 85 Cinnamaldehyde dimethylacetal, 57, 84 Cinnamyl alcohol, 56,105 58, 9 2-Cinnamylthio-2-thiazoline, 56, 82 Citric acid, 58,43 Citronellal, 58, 107, 112 Cleavage of methyl ethers with iodotri-methylsilane, 59, 35 Cobalt(II) acetylacetonate, 57, 13 Conjugate addition of aryl aldehydes, 59, 53 Copper (I) bromide, 58, 52, 54, 56 59,123 COPPER CATALYZED ARYLATION OF /3-DlCARBONYL COMPOUNDS, 58, 52 Copper (I) chloride, 57, 34 Copper (II) chloride, 56, 10 Copper(I) iodide, 55, 105, 123, 124 Copper(I) oxide, 59, 206 Copper(ll) oxide, 56, 10 Copper salts of carboxylic acids, 59, 127 Copper(l) thiophenoxide, 55, 123 59, 210 Copper(l) trifluoromethanesulfonate, 59, 202... 

Alkylation or acylation takes place at the nitrogen in position 1 when l/7-[l,2,4]triazolo[4,3-A][l,2,4]triazole 9 is treated with methyl iodide or acetyl chloride, furnishing compound 10 or 11, respectively <1983S415>. The 7-methyl isomers 13 are obtained after conversion of compounds 9 into the 1-acetyl derivatives 11 followed by methylation with methyl trifluoromethanesulfonate to give the l-acetyl-6-aryl-7-methyl-3-methylthio-17/-[l,2,4]triazolo[4,3-A]-[l,2,4]triazol-7-ium-trifluoromethanesulfonates 12, which upon treatment with aqueous sodium carbonate afford the 7-methyl derivatives 13 <1985BCJ735>. 

It may be suspected that the genuinely topotactic (as secured by the molecular precision of the AFM [18]) photodimerization of 2-benzyl-5-benzyli-denecyclopentanone [118] might be a good candidate for a quantitative preparative photo dimerization to give the head-to-tail anti-[2+2] dimer. Early quantitative solid-state [2-1-2] photodimerizations (most of the published mechanistic interpretations of which can no longer be accepted) are listed in [110]. These deal with the anti dimerization of acenaphthylene-1,2-dicarboxylic anhydride, the head-to-head syn dimerization of acenaphthylene-1-carboxylic acid, the syn dimerization of 5,6-dichloroacenaphthylene, and the thermally reversible head-to-tail anti dimerization of seven ( )-2,6-di-f-butyl-4-(2-aryl-ethenyl)pyrylium-trifluoromethanesulfonates. All of these reactions proceed fully specific. On the other hand, quantitative photoconversions of a 1 1 mixed crystal of ethyl and propyl a-cyano-4-[2-(4-pyridyl)ethenyl]cinnamates gives mixtures of diesters with one (A>410 nm) or two cyclobutane rings (no cutoff filter). 

M. S. Haka, M.R. Kilbourn, L. Watkins, S.A. Toorongian, Aryltrimethylammonium trifluoromethanesulfonates as precursors to aryl [F-18] fluorides—Improved synthesis of [F-18]GBR-13119, J. Label. Compds Radiopharm. 27 (1989) 823-833. 

The synthesis of quinazoline derivatives by the addition of N(3)-C(4) fragment units has not previously been a major synthetic route, but 2,4-dialkyl, alkyl/aryl, and diaryl quinazolines 865 are now readily available by a new procedure that involves activation of A -arylamides 864 with trifluoromethanesulfonic anhydride and 2-chloropyridine, and subsequent addition of nitriles <2006JA14254>. Either normal or microwave heating can be used to perform the final ring-closure step. 

Moreover, the sulfur atom of 1,4-oxathianes can be alkylated. Thus, reaction of 3-aryl-l,4-oxathianes 84 with (trimethylsilyl)methyl trifluoromethanesulfonate gave a mixture of cis- and /ra t-isomers of 3-aryl-4-(trimethylsilyl)-methyl-l,4-oxathianium triflates 85 (Equation 12) <1997J(P1)715>. 

Protonation of the A -aryl-Af-(3-triisopropylsilylpropargyl) carbamate 37 with trifluoromethanesulfonic acid generates a (3-silylvinyl cationic intermediate 38 that is attacked by the carbamate carbonyl group (but not the aromatic ring) to give good yields of the 2(3/7)-oxazolone 40 (Fig. 5.9). ... 

Barrett and Kohrt" ° and Kelly and Lang" independently reported the first examples of oxazole triflates (Scheme 6.17). In both cases, the requisite 2-aryl-4(5/7)-oxazolone, 56 or 59, was treated with trifluoromethanesulfonic anhydride (Tf20) to afford 60a or 60b, respectively, which were then coupled successfully with a variety of organostannanes. Kelly and Lang" attempted to extend this methodology to prepare the key oxazole triflates 63 in their approach to sulfomycin I. However, they were unexpectedly thwarted when 61 could not be cyclized to the requisite 4(57/)-oxazolone precursors 62. Schaus and Panek described an unproved procedure to prepare 56 in 90% yield very recently. 

Instead of perchlorates, trifluoromethanesulfonates (tnflates) can be used They are readily prepared and claimed to be safer than perchlorates [75] 18F Aryl fluorides have been prepared from p YC6H4N+(CH3)3CF3S03- (Y = COCeHs, CN, CHO, NO2, COCH3, CO2C2H5) by this alternative substrate Fluorodequatermzation can also be applied to the preparation of fluonnated heterocyclics such as 4 fluoro 6 phenyl 1,3 pyrimidine [76] (equation 15) and fluoropunnes [77]... 

Biaryls, preparation by Pd-catalyzed aryl-aryl coupling, 66, 73 Bicyclo[2.2.1 Jhepta-2,5-diene-1,4-bis(diphenylphosphino)butanerhodium trifluoromethanesulfonate, 68, 64... 

The Z-selective formation of o -fluoro- ,/l-unsaturated esters has been achieved using the deselenenic acid of the syn- and/or an//-3-aryl-2-fluoro-3-hydroxy-2- (g) organoselanylacetates with trifluoromethanesulfonic acid. 

Treatment of 2-(trimethylsilyl)phenyl trifluoromethanesulfonate 171 with KF generates benzyne, which can then react with aromatic aldehydes to furnish 9-aryl-97/-xanthenes in moderate yield (Scheme 55). Electron-rich aromatic aldehydes are necessary to obtain high yields of the desired xanthenes <20040L4049>. 

More recently, trifluoromethanesulfonic acid (triflic acid, TfOH) has been used to functionalize silanes by electrophilic substitution of aryl substituents62,63 (equation 35). The silyl triflates formed in this reaction are useful building blocks for a wide variety of products. Chlorosilanes can be obtained by treatment with lithium chloride (equation 36). 

A new synthetic approach to polycyclic aromatic compounds has been developed based on double Suzuki coupling of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon bis(boronic acid) derivatives with o-bromoaryl aldehydes to furnish aryl dialdehydes. These are then converted to larger polycyclic aromatic ring systems by either (a) conversion to diolefins by Wittig reaction followed by photocyclization, or (b) reductive cyclization with trifluoromethanesulfonic acid and 1,3-propanediol (Eq. (12)) [30]. 

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