Benzylic halides palladium catalysts

Alkenylboranes (R2C=CHBZ2 Z — various groups) couple in high yields with vinylic, alkynyl, aryl, benzylic, and allylic halides in the presence of tetra-kis(triphenylphosphine)palladium, Pd(PPh3)4, and a base to give R C CHR. 9-Alkyl-9-BBN compounds (p. 1013) also couple with vinylic and aryl halides " as well as with a-halo ketones, nitriles, and esters.Aryl halides couple with ArB(IR2 ) species with a palladium catalyst. ... 

Complexes of other metals are also capable of catalyzing useful carbonylation reactions under phase transfer conditions. For example, certain palladium(o) catalysts, like Co2(C0)g, can catalyze the carbonylation of benzylic halides to carboxylic acids. When applied to vinylic dibromides, unsaturated diacids or diynes were obtained, using Pd(diphos)2[diphos l,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane] as the metal catalyst, benzyltriethylammonium chloride as the phase transfer agent, and t-amyl alcohol or benzene as the organic phase(18),... 

Arene(tricarbonyl)chromium complexes, 19 Nickel boride, 197 to trans-alkenes Chromium(II) sulfate, 84 of anhydrides to lactones Tetrachlorotris[bis(l,4-diphenyl-phosphine)butane]diruthenium, 288 of aromatic rings Palladium catalysts, 230 Raney nickel, 265 Sodium borohydride-1,3-Dicyano-benzene, 279 of aryl halides to arenes Palladium on carbon, 230 of benzyl ethers to alcohols Palladium catalysts, 230 of carboxylic acids to aldehydes Vilsmeier reagent, 341 of epoxides to alcohols Samarium(II) iodide, 270 Sodium hydride-Sodium /-amyloxide-Nickel(II) chloride, 281 Sodium hydride-Sodium /-amyloxide-Zinc chloride, 281 of esters to alcohols Sodium borohydride, 278 of imines and related compounds Arene(tricarbonyl)chromium complexes, 19... 

Aryl halides can be dehalogenated with triethylsilane in the presence of a palladium catalyst. The method is versatile and can also be used for the reduction of acyl chlorides to aldehydes, or benzylicbromides to the corresponding hydrocarbons. If different types of halides are present in the molecule, selective dehalogenation takes place. Thus, an aryl iodide can be reduced in the presence of a chloride, and benzylic bromide is reduced more easily than an aryl bromide. Finally, the method is even able to distinguish between two aryl bromides in the same molecule (Scheme 4.41)67. 

The phase-transfer method has also been employed for the carbonylation of benzylic halides to carboxylic acids.477 The palladium(O) complexes [Pd(PPh3)4] (103), [Pd(diphos)2] (104) and [Pd(DBA)2] (105 DBA = dibenzylideneacetone) were used as catalysts. With (103) and (104) the carboxylic acid was the major product. Complex (105) gave little or none of the acid, the toluene and bibenzyl derivatives corresponding to the benzyl halide used being formed. Benzyl esters of the carboxylic acid were sometimes present as minor products. The reaction has been adapted to provide a new synthesis of anthranilic acid derivatives (equation 106).478 Tri-n-butylamine was used to neutralize the HBr formed. 

Alkyl aryl ketones are known to be arylated at the a-position of the alkyl groups, via the corresponding enolates, by treatment with aryl halides in the presence of palladium catalysts [4, 9]. The ortho arylation of alkyl aryl ketones is also possible. For example, in the reaction of benzyl phenyl ketones with bromobenzenes, the arylation first occurs at the benzylic position the ortho positions are then arylated via C-H bond cleavage (Eq. 8) [15]. The ortho arylation is believed to occur after coordination of the enol oxygen to ArPd(II), which is followed by ortho palladation as in the reaction of 2-phenylphenols shown in Scheme 2. 

The alkenylindium compounds, obtained by the addition of benzyl- and allylindium to alkynes, couple with organic halides in the presence of a palladium catalyst to give the three-component coupling products (Scheme 99).286 1,3-Dibromopropene or 3-bromo-l-iodopropene reacts with indium to give diindiopropene 87a,b.147,148 This dimetallic reagent reacts with two different electrophiles successively carbonyl compounds and imines are allowed to react with 87 as the first electrophile to give vinylic indium intermediates 88, which react with... 

Selenides (selenoethers)and tellurides can be prepared via RSe and RTe species, and selenium and borohydride exchange resin followed by the halide give the selenoether. The La/l2-catalyzed reaction of diphenyl diselenide with primary alkyl iodides gave arylalkyl selenides, and Inl has been used with benzyl halides. Diaryl selenides (Ar—Se—AF) have been prepared by couphng aryl iodides with tin reagents (ArSeSnR3) with a palladium(O) catalyst. ... 

Palladium complexes also catalyze the carbonylation of halides. " Aryl (see 13-15), vinylic, benzylic, and allylic halides (especially iodides) can be converted to carboxylic esters with CO, an alcohol or alkoxide, and a palladium complex.Similar reactivity was reported with vinyl triflates. a-Halo ketones are converted to (3-keto esters with CO, an alcohol, NBU3 and a palladium catalyst at 110°C. Use of an amine instead of the alcohol or alkoxide leads to an amide. 

Reaction with an amine, AIBN, CO and a tetraalkyltin catalyst also leads to an amide.Benzylic and allylic halides were converted to carboxylic acids electroca-talytically, with CO and a cobalt imine complex. Vinylic halides were similarly converted with CO and nickel cyanide, under phase-transfer conditions.Allylic (9-phosphates were converted to allylic amides with CO and ClTi=NTMS, in the presence of a palladium catalyst. Terminal alkynes were converted to the alkynyl ester using CO, PdBr2, CuBr2 in methanol and sodium bicarbonate. ... 

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. 

Very recently another reaction, which involves a palladium-catalyzed benzyl halide carbonylation step, has been commercialized by Clariant AG. Here, the carbonylation of 1,2-xylyl dichloride in the presence of a palladium-phosphine catalyst yields isochromanone (eq. (10)) [54]. 

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