Aryl trifluoromethanesulfonates trifluoromethanesulfonic anhydride

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. ... 

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. 

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. 

Primary and secondary amides and thioamides react with alkyl chlorofoimates with loss of CO2 or COS, forming iminium chlorides (82 equation 52). In some cases this method is complementary to the Pinner imido ester hydrochloride synthesis. The iminium salt (83 Scheme 6) formed by action of ethyl chloroformate on DMF is labile and decomposes rapidly to ethyl chloride. If the reaction is performed in the presence of NaBp4, the iminium salt (85) is isolable. Aryl chlorofoimates react in the same fashion with DMF or DMA, but in these cases the aryloxymethyleneiminium compounds are fairly stable, so this reaction is an important method for the preparation of compounds of this type. - Succinic acid monoamides, phthalic acid monoamides and related compounds are cyclized to iminium salts (86 equation 53) by treatment with acetic anhydride and HC104. ° With the aid of trifluoromethanesulfonic anhydride lactams and amides can be converted to dication ether salts (87) and (88 Scheme 7).22i.222... 

The C-4 acids (183 and 184) have also been subjected to borane reduction conditions to afford alcohol 195 in 23-50% yield or 64% yield as the C-8 epimeric mixture (195 and 196, Scheme 29) [34, 49, 64]. The C-8 alcohol epimers 195 and 196 have been treated separately as a common intermediate for a number of C-4 derivatives including esters, ethers, and amines [34, 49, 64], Alcohols 195 and 196 was subjected to DCC, DMAP, and desired acid chloride or carboxylic acid in CH2CI2 affording ester analogs in 50-92% yield [64], Esters prepared include alkyl, aryl, and fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl (Fmoc) protected amino acid derivatives (197 and 198) [64]. Ethers were prepared with various alkyl halides and Ag20 in CH3CN at 40 °C. Alkyl, allyl, and benzyl ethers were prepared in 45-80% yield (199 and 200) [34,64]. Alcohols 195 and 196 were then activated to the triflates and displaced by a variety of amines by treatment with trifluoromethanesulfonic anhydride and desired amine in 22% - quantitative yield over two steps (201 and 202)... 

Apart from aryl halides, other very easily available substrates for nickel-catalysed biaryl (II) synthesis are aryl sulfonates (XII). Method D is very efficient in the homocoupling reactions of substituted aryl sulfonates in good to excellent yields [15], Table 6. Substituted aryl sulfonates are readily obtained from phenols and trifluoromethanesulfonic anhydride, benzenesulfonyl-, tosyl- or methanesulfonyl chloride in pyridine, or in a suitable inert solvent such as dichloromethane in the presence of triethylamine or Hiinig s base. Among other nickel complexes, Ni(dppe)Cl2 and Ni(dppf)Cl2 have been used (10 mo1%) as slightly less versatile catalysts for the homo-couplings of naphthyl sulfonates in refluxing THF, DMF or their mixtures [42]. 

An alternative approach to benzo[Z ]thiophene derivatives includes treatment of an aryl-substituted ketene dithioacetal monoxide 188 with trifluoromethanesulfonic anhydride [99] (TfjO) in the presence of K2CO3 in toluene at 25 °C, followed by addition of ethanolamine to the reaction mixture, provided benzo[fc]thiophenes, including 3-trifluoromethylbenzo[Z ]thiophene 189, in good yields. The cyclization proceeded through formation of reactive sulfonium electrophile [1(X)]. The synthesis of the starting material 188 was also facile and scalable, starting from aryl ketone 186 and formaldehyde dimethyl dithioacetal S-oxide (FAMSO) [101]. 

Other Uses. Imidazole is one of the best catalysts for the preparation of acid chlorides from the corresponding carboxylic acids and phosgene. Aryl triflates can be obtained from phenols, or better phenolates, using Trifluoromethanesulfonic Anhydride in combination with imidazole A-triflylimidazole is the reactive species. Photochemical deconjugations of enones can be erratic but are promoted by the presence of a weak base such as imidazole or pyridine in polar solvents. ... 

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). 

The most important method for the preparation of aryl ketones is known as Friedel-Crafts acylation. The reaction is of wide scope. Reagents other than acyl halides can be used," including carboxylic acids," anhydrides, and ketenes. Oxalyl chloride has been used to give diaryl 1,2-diketones." Carboxylic esters usually give alkylation as the predominant product (see 11-11)." A-Carbamoyl p-lactams reacted with naphthalene in the presence of trifluoromethanesulfonic acid to give the keto-amide." ... 

Diaryl sulfones. Aryl sulfonyl bromides (but not sulfonyl chlorides) react with silver trifluoromethanesulfonate in nitromethane at 0° to form unstable mixed sulfonic anhydrides (c/ 4, 533-534). These react with arenes (threefold excess) at the same temperature to give diaryl sulfones usually in yields of 80-100%. 

ALKYL ARYL SULFONES Trifluoromethanesulfonic-alkenesulfonic anhydrides. 

The trifluoromethanesulfonic carboxylic anhydrides are highly effective acylation agents, which react without catalysts even with deactivated aromatics to yield aryl ketones (eq 26). ... 

One-carbon Homologation of Carboxylic Acids. l-[(Tri-methylsilyl)methyl]benzotriazole converts benzoyl chlorides to the corresponding (benzotriazol-l-yl)methyl aryl ketones in high yields (see eq 1). Treatment with triflic anhydride and 2,6-lutidine in CH2CI2 converts these ketones into their enolate triflates in 83-95% yields (eq 4). In the subsequent steps, the triflates are treated with sodium methoxide and then with ethanolic HCl to afford ethyl esters of the corresponding arylacetic acids in 89-98% yields (eq 5). The proposed reaction mechanism involves elimination of trifluoromethanesulfonic acid with sodium methoxide and final alcoholysis of the obtained l-(arylethynyl)benzotriazole intermediates with ethanolic HCl. A comparable classical method for one-carbon homologation of carboxylic acids, the Amdt-Eistert reaction, involves difficult to handle diazomethane and Q -diazoketones. ... 

The isolation of the non-cyclic amino(aryl)carbenes and amino(alkyl)car-benes demonstrated that singlet carbene centers can be sufficiently stabilized by only one a-nitrogen atom. In 2005, Bertrand and co vorkers succeeded in preparing the first cyclic alkyl(amino)carbenes (CAACs, Scheme 1.15). The precursor for CAAC 123 was obtained from an imine by deprotonation with LDA (LDA = lithium diisopropylamide) and subsequent reaction with l,2-epoxy-2-methylpropane to give 121, which was converted into cyclic aldirain-ium salt 122 by reaction with trifluoromethanesulfonic acid anhydride. Deprotonation of 122 with LDA afforded CAAC 123 as a colorless solid (Scheme 1.15). 

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