Arylboronic acids aromatic couplings with

The first preparations of diaryliodonium salts have been reported in the 19th century, but refinements and improvements keep appearing to date. In most cases an iodoaryl species containing iodine(III) is coupled with an arene or a derivative of it in a typical electrophilic aromatic substitution. Lithiated, stannylated or silylated aryls and arylboronic acids or borates have been introduced recently in order to avoid harsh conditions and to improve yields. The iodoaryl species may be also formed in situ from arenes and iodine(III) reagents. 

In addition to aliphatic and aromatic amines, amides275 and sulfonamides285 have also been used as nitrogen nucleophiles for copper-mediated coupling with arylboronic acids, and these reactions provide protected anilines. 

Lam and coworkers292 and Antilla and Buchwald297 expanded the scope of this type of catalytic coupling to encompass reactions of amines. Lam reported the coupling of aliphatic and aromatic amines, as well as heterocycles with N—H bonds with a combination of Cu(OAc)2 (10 mol%) and co-oxidants like pyridine A-oxide (PNO) or TEMPO in air. No single set of conditions led to coupling of all substrates. Concurrently, Buchwald reported reactions at room temperature catalyzed by Cu(OAc)2 (5-10 mol%) and myristic acid with stoichiometric amounts of 2,6-lutidine as base. Substituted anilines, as well as primary and secondary amines, reacted with a series of arylboronic acids. Excellent yields of arylated products were obtained for reactions of anilines, but only moderate yields were obtained for reactions of aliphatic amines. Yudin and coworkers employed this protocol to prepare A-aryl aziridines (equation 72)298. 

One of the key problems associated with the Suzuki cross-coupling was the lack of reactivity of aryl chlorides. This is unfortunate, because chlorinated aromatics are usually much cheaper and more readily available than other haloarenes. Equation 12.68 shows a solution to this problem where the addition of the base Cs2C03 and P(t-Bu)3, a sterically hindered and electron-rich phosphine, led to successful coupling of an aryl chloride and arylboronic acid.142... 

Several chemo-selective aryl-aryl coupling reactions of aromatic halides and organometallics with transition-metal catalysts are known.16 For example, coupling reactions of arylboronic acids with aryl halides with Pd(0) catalyst,17 arylmagnesium halides with aryl halides with Ni(II) catalysts,18 and aryl trialkyl tin compounds with aryl halides with Pd(0) catalyst19 are well known. The polyhalo-aromatic substances were converted into AB -type monomers by selective metallation of one of the halo-functional groups in each monomer. 

Shi and co-workers have developed various types of C—H bond functionalization and C—C bond formation. Recently, they reported a novel transformation to realize ortho-arylation of acetanilides with trialkoxyarylsilanes through direct C—H functionalization (Equation 11.34) [72]. Furthermore, they also demonstrated a novel method for the direct construction of biaryl C—C bonds via Pd(II)-catalyzed cross-coupling of (hetero)arenes and various arylboronic acids [73]. Various aromatic rings show good selectivity, even without directing groups, under mild conditions. 

In the presence of a Pd catalyst, CIPd[P(Cf,Hvinyl iodide couples with mctalatcd aromatics, particularly arylzinc chloride or arylboronic acids. Aryl Grignard reagents, however, couple in very low yield. The resulting C-aryl glucals can be converted to C-aryl glycosides by functionalization of the enol ether double bond.2... 

As seen with pyridazines, palladium catalyzed coupling reactions were also frequently applied in the phthalazine field. For example, commercially available 1,4-dichlorophthalazine 185 was aminated to give 186 in good yield by aromatic nucleophilic substitution with A -methylpiperazine <01S699>. Then, 186 was coupled with various substituted arylboronic acids to obtain 187 by Suzuki-type cross-coupling reactions. Best results were obtained with electron-donating substituents on the arylboronic acid. 

The ready availability of arylboronates by an aromatic C-H borylation provides a synthetic link to the well-established palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions, rhodium-catalyzed 1,4-addition to a,p-unsaturated carbonyl compounds, and other bond forming reactions using arylboronic esters (Scheme 2.12). Borylation of 1,3-dichlorobenzene with pinacolborane is followed directly by a cross-coupling reaction with methyl p-bromobenzoate for the synthesis of a biaryl product in 91% yield [60]. Pinacol esters of arylboronic acids react much slower than the free acids [62], but both derivatives achieve high isolated yields and comparable enantioselectivities (91% ee) in asymmetric 1,4-addition to N-benzyl crotonamides [63]. Borylation of arenes followed by oxidation of the C-B bond is synthetically equivalent to an aromatic C-H oxidation to phenols [64]. Oxidation of the resulting arylboronates with Oxone in a 1 1 acetone-water solution is completed within 10 min at room temperature. 

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