Biaryl coupling palladium catalysts

Unactivated aryl iodides undergo the conversion Arl — ArCHj when treated with tris(diethylamino)sulfonium difluorotrimethylsilicate and a palladium catalyst.131 A number of methods, all catalyzed by palladium complexes, have been used to prepare unsymmetrical biaryls (see also 3-16). In these methods, aryl bromides or iodides are coupled with aryl Grignard reagents,152 with arylboronic acids ArB(OH)2,153 with aryltin compounds Ar-SnR3,154 and with arylmercury compounds.155 Unsymmetrical binaphthyls were synthesized by photochemically stimulated reaction of naphthyl iodides with naphthoxide ions in an SrnI reaction.156 Grignard reagents also couple with aryl halides without a palladium catalyst, by the benzyne mechanism.157 OS VI, 916 65, 108 66, 67. 

A similar reaction was reported by Kabalka et al. where ligandless and solvent-free Suzuki couplings were performed with potassium fluoride on alumina. This reaction is very interesting as the catalyst used was palladium powder, the least expensive form of palladium available32. The authors demonstrated the simplicity of the procedure by efficient isolation of the biaryl products via a simple filtration. This could be done as the palladium catalyst remains adsorbed on the alumina surface. A small amount of water in the matrix was beneficial for the outcome of the reactions. Recycling of the catalyst was possible by adding fresh potassium fluoride to the palladium/alumina surface and the catalytic system remained effective at least through six reaction cycles (Scheme 2.6). 

Palladium catalysts have been found which are effective in the Suzuki coupling reaction of arylboronic acids with aryl chlorides carrying electron-withdrawing groups.73 Biaryls may also be synthesized by cross-coupling of arylboronic acids with arenediazonium salts.74,75 There has been a report of the polymer-bound palladium-catalysed Suzuki coupling of aryl triflates with organoboron compounds.76 Arylbor-onates may themselves be synthesized by the palladium-catalysed reactions of... 

Leadbeater and Griffiths developed palladium catalysts for the Suzuki cross-coupling of aryl halides bearing two ortho substituents with phenylboronic acid, and used them in the synthesis of sterically hindered biaryls [83]. 

Oraganosilicon compounds react with a wide variety of organic electrophiles in the presence of a palladium catalyst and a Lewis base activator such as a fluoride or hydroxy ion to give the corresponding coupled products. The reaction is applicable to synthesis of diynes, enynes, arylacetylenes, alkenylarenes, biaryls, allylarenes and alkylarenes in addition to 1,3-, 1,4- and 1,5-dienes with tolerance for various functional groups. 

A rapid and efficient Suzuki-Miyaura coupling protocol utilising fibrous PS-based palladium catalysts (FibreCaF ) and microwave irradiation has been reported by Wang and Sauer (Scheme 8). The biaryl motif 26, formed in this reaction, is an important pharmacophore in many biologically active compounds. Each reaction... 

Arylborates (12-28), ArB(OR)2, can be used in place of the boronic acid. The coupling reaction of aryl iodide 23 with boronate 24, for example, gave the biaryl.Aryl and heteroarylboroxines (25) can be coupled to aryl halides using a palladium catalyst. ... 

In a related reaction, aryltrifluoroborates PhBF3 X (12-28), are coupled to aryl halides with a palladium catalyst to give the biaryl. ... 

The total synthesis of the proteasome inhibitor cyclic peptide TMC-95A was accomplished by. S.J. Danishefsky and co-workers. The biaryl linkage in the natural product was constructed by a Suzuki cross-coupling between an aryl iodide and an arylboronic ester derived from L-tyrosine. The required arylboronic pinacolate substrate was prepared using the Miyaura boration. The aryl iodide was exposed to b/s(pinacolato)diboron in the presence of a palladium catalyst and potassium acetate in DMSO. The coupling proceeded in high yield and no symmetrical biaryl by-product was observed. 

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