Benzyl chloride palladium complexes

Novel palladium-catalyzed transformations of allylic alcohol and its derivatives are developed by Yamamoto and his co-workers. Bis(7r-allyl)palladium complexes are considered to be the key intermediates for the allylation of benzyl-idenemalonitrile and benzyl chloride (Scheme 29) (for examples see Refs 176,176a-176d). Asymmetric version of these reactions is being awaited. 

The previous extension of solvent mixtures involved solvent interfaces. This organic-water interfacial technique has been successfully extended to the synthesis of phenylacetic and phenylenediacetic acids based on the use of surface-active palla-dium-(4-dimethylaminophenyl)diphenylphosphine complex in conjunction with dode-cyl sodium sulfate to effect the carbonylation of benzyl chloride and dichloro-p-xylene in a toluene-aqueous sodium hydroxide mixture. The product yields at 60°C and 1 atm are essentially quantitative based on the substrate conversions, although carbon monoxide also undergoes a slow hydrolysis reaction along with the carbonylation reactions. The side reaction produces formic acid and is catalyzed by aqueous base but not by palladium. The phosphine ligand is stable to the carbonylation reactions and the palladium can be recovered quantitatively as a compact emulsion between the organic and aqueous phases after the reaction, but the catalytic activity of the recovered palladium is about a third of its initial activity due to product inhibition (Zhong et al., 1996). 

The carbonylation of bromobenzene with palladium/tppts complexes was reported by Monteil and Kalck (81). Some of the aforementioned disadvantages were alleviated in a new process for carbonylation of substituted benzyl chlorides (82). The reaction was carried out in a two-phase system in the presence of CO at atmospheric pressure yields of phenylacetic acids of 80-94% were reported. The palladium catalyst contains tppts or BINAS-Na, 10, to allow water solubility. The maximum turnover frequency was found to be 135 h 1, and the lifetime of the catalyst increased as a result of continuous addition of reactants. 

In a mechanistically similar process, the neutral palladium(II) dipyridylamine complex (24), obtained by deprotonation of complex (23), underwent reaction with benzoyl chloride to give the substituted complex (25) together with some free ligand (Scheme 8).33 This particular reaction sequence could not be generalized because of the relative instability of other metal complexes related to compound (24). However, a more extensive series of electrophilic substitutions could be carried out on the neutral complex (26), which displayed ambident nucleophilic behaviour by reaction with benzyl chloride and benzoyl chloride at nitrogen and reaction with benzenediazonium fluoroborate at carbon (Scheme 9). 

In addition to the most important 1,2-difunctionalization assisted or catalyzed by palladium(II) complexes, a catalytic 1,1-arylamination process of alkenes, applied to the construction of nitrogen heterocycles from 4-pentenylamides, was realized29,30. The mechanism involves the formation of arylpalladium chloride from alkyl(aryl)stannanes, the addition to the alkene, the isomerization of the adduct to the more stable benzylic palladium complex, and the displacement of palladium by an internal nitrogen nucleophile. In the presence of a substituent, mixtures of diastereomers were generally obtained. 

The most characteristic catalytic activity of the rhodium complex was observed with the reaction of aroyl halides. The decarbonylation of aroyl halides was not satisfactory with palladium catalyst whereas they decarbonylated smoothly on heating to 200°C. with the rhodium complex. For example, when benzoyl chloride was heated with the complex at 200°C., chlorobenzene distilled oflF rapidly ith the evolution of carbon monoxide. Benzoyl bromide reacts similarly to give bromo-benzene. Phenylacetyl chloride was coi verted into benzyl chloride. Additional results are in Table II. 

The cationic palladium(II) complex [Pd(24a)3Cl]+ of the para-isomer of 24a (M = Na) catalyzes the carbonylation of benzyl chloride in basic medium to give phenyl-acetic acid in high yields. The Pd(0) complex [Pd(24a)3], formed by reduction of [Pd(24a)3Cl]+ with CO, is asumed to be the catalytic species [93] (see Scheme 1). Palladium complexes of ligands related to 24a (M = Na) have also been employed in aqueous ethylene glycol phases as catalysts for Suzuki-type C—C cross-coupling reactions for the syntheses of substituted biphenyls (cf. Section 6.6) [97]. 

The hydrophilic palladium complex (2) was also a good catalyst for the carboxylation of benzyl halides under heptane-water two-phase conditions [20]. Benzyl chloride and bromide give phenylacetic acid in high yields under mild conditions (Eq. 5). However, the biphasic carboxylation with PdCI2(PPH,) , is very slow, and gives a considerable amount of benzyl alcohol. The addition of a normal PTC such... 

Cuprous chloride tends to form water-soluble complexes with lower olefins and acts as an IPTC catalyst, e.g., in the two-phase hydrolysis of alkyl chlorides to alcohols with sodium carboxylate solution [10,151] and in the Prins reactions between 1-alkenes and aqueous formaldehyde in the presence of HCl to form 1,3-glycols [10]. Similarly, water-soluble rhodium-based catalysts (4-diphenylphosphinobenzoic acid and tri-Cs-io-alkylmethylam-monium chlorides) were used as IPTC catalysts for the hydroformylation of hexene, dodecene, and hexadecene to produce aldehydes for the fine chemicals market [152]. Palladium diphenyl(potassium sulfonatobenzyl)phosphine and its oxide complexes catalyzed the IPTC dehalogenation reactions of allyl and benzyl halides [153]. Allylic substrates such as cinnamyl ethyl carbonate and nucleophiles such as ethyl acetoactate and acetyl acetone catalyzed by a water-soluble bis(dibenzylideneacetone)palladium or palladium complex of sulfonated triphenylphosphine gave regio- and stereo-specific alkylation products in quantitative yields [154]. Ito et al. used a self-assembled nanocage as an IPTC catalyst for the Wacker oxidation of styrene catalyzed by (en)Pd(N03) [155]. 

The formation of benzyl palladium(ii) complexes from Pd(PPh3)4 and benzyl chloride have been reported ... 

Mechanistic studies performed with Freeh s pincer catalyst in the Heck reaction excluded catalytic cycles with the involvement of homogeneous palladium(O) species, as indicated by the results obtained from the (recently developed) dibenzyl-test, which is directly applicable under the reactions conditions applied [24aj. Dibenzyl formation was - in contrast to Heck reactions catalyzed by palladium(O) complexes of type [Pd(PR3)2, where Pd /Pd" cycles are operative - not detectable by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC/MS) when reaction mixtures of aryl bromide, olefin, benzyl chloride ( 10 mol% relative to aryl bromide), catalyst, and base were thermally treated. On the other hand, experimental observations, such as quantitative poisoning experiments with metallic mercury and CS2, which were shown to eflfidently inhibit catalysis, as well as analysis of the reaction profiles showed sigmoidal-shaped kinetics with induction periods and hence indicated that palladium nanoparticles are the catalytically active form... 

The asymmetric arylation or alkylation of racemic secondary phosphines catalyzed by chiral Lewis acids in many cases led to the formation of enantiomerically enriched tertiary phosphines [120-129]. Chiral complexes of ruthenium, platinum, and palladium were used. For example, chiral complex Pt(Me-Duphos)(Ph)Br catalyzed asymmetric alkylation of secondary phosphines by various RCH2X (X=C1, Br, I) compounds with formation of tertiary phosphines (or their boranes) 200 in good yields and with 50-93% ee [121]. The enantioselective alkylation of secondary phosphines 201 with benzyl halogenides catalyzed by complexes [RuH (/-Pr-PHOX 203)2] led to the formation of tertiary phosphines 202 with 57-95% ee [123, 125]. Catalyst [(R)-Difluorophos 204)(dmpe]Ru(H)][BPh4] was effective at asymmetric alkylation of secmidaiy phosphines with benzyl bromides, whereas (R)-MeOBiPHEP 205/dmpe was more effective in the case of benzyl chlorides (Schemes 65, 66, and 67) [125—127]. 

A majority of the carbonylations of organic halides have been conducted with aryl and vinyl halides, although reactions have been developed with benzylic halides and even purely aliphatic halides. A majority of the reactions of aryl halides have been conducted with aryl iodides, although a few reactions have been reported with electron-poor aryl bromides. Few examples of these reactions have been reported with electron-rich aryl bromides or aryl chlorides. Most of these reactions have been conducted with palladium complexes containing phosphine ligands. 

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