Biaryls, reductive

An alternative reaction mechanism has been suggested for nitroarylation of enolates. An impetus for considering other mechanisms is the fact that the by-products which might be expected from aryl radicals, such as reduction products from hydrogen abstraction from the solvent or biaryls from coupling, are not observed. One alternative is that, rather than being a chain process, the reaction may involve recombination whereby the radicals combine more rapidly than they separate. 

Meyers has also reported the use of chiral oxazolines in asymmetric copper-catalyzed Ullmann coupling reactions. For example, treatment of bromooxazoline 50 with activated copper powder in refluxing DMF afforded binaphthyl oxazoline 51 as a 93 7 mixture of atropisomers diastereomerically pure material was obtained in 57% yield after a single recrystallization. Reductive cleavage of the oxazoline groups as described above afforded diol 52 in 88% yield. This methodology has also been applied to the synthesis of biaryl derivatives. 

The possible mechanism for the reactions involving stoichiometric amount of preformed Ni(0) complexes is shown in Fig. 9.8. The first step of the mechanism involves the oxidative addition of aryl halides to Ni(0) to form aryl Ni(II) halides. Disproportion of two aryl Ni(II) species leads to a diaryl Ni(II) species and a Ni(II) halide. This diaryl Ni(II) species undergoes rapid reductive elimination to form the biaryl product. The generated Ni(0) species can reenter the catalytic cycle. 

This iron-ate complex 19 is also able to catalyze the reduction of 4-nitroanisole to 4-methoxyaniline or Ullmann-type biaryl couplings of bis(2-bromophenyl) methylamines 31 at room temperature. In contrast, the corresponding bis(2-chlor-ophenyl)methylamines proved to be unreactive under these conditions. A shift to the dianion-type electron transfer(ET)-reagent [Me4Fe]Li2 afforded the biaryl as well with the dichloro substrates at room temperature, while the dibromo substrates proved to be reactive even at —78°C under these reaction conditions. This effect is attributed to the more negative oxidation potential of dianion-type [Me4Fe]Li2. 

Very recently another highly active and well-defined Pd-NHC based pre-catalyst containing a cyclopentadienyl (Cp) ligand 18 has been successfully applied in this transformation. Cp was chosen as stabilising ligand due to its well-known tendency to reductively be removed from Cp-Pd complexes that may help in the transformation of the pre-catalyst into the desired catalytic active species (NHC)Pd(O) [107]. Di- and tii-ortho substituted biaryls were obtained in good to excellent yields however, when the formation of tetra-orf/to substituted compounds was attempted very poor yields were obtained, even using aryl bromide or iodide substrates (Scheme 6.28). 

The described fluorous-tag strategy has also been applied to the synthesis of biaryl-substituted hydantoins (Scheme 7.81) [94]. 4-Hydroxybenzaldehyde was converted into the corresponding perfluorinated species, which was then subjected to a reductive amination. The resulting amine was treated with an isocyanate to produce the fluorous-tagged urea, which spontaneously cyclized to form the corresponding hydantoin. Finally, the fluorous tag was detached by a Suzuki-type carbon-carbon bond formation to furnish the desired target structure in good yield. 

The reaction involves a key transesterification of the phenol with the phosphinite ligand. Orthometallation of the resulting phosphinite leads to a metallacycle. After reductive elimination, the biaryl product is formed and undergoes a transesterification to afford the phenol product (Scheme 27).123... 

The bromo-aryl groups are first linked by (5,5 )-stilbene diol to form the dibromide 33. Compound 33 is then dilithiated with t-BuLi at —78°C, followed by addition of CuCN. Intermediate 34 is presumably formed during the reaction. Reductive elimination promoted by molecular oxygen provides compound 35 at 77% yield with 93 7 diasteroselectivity. The final biaryl compound ellagi-... 

In a series of reports on their class of DPPIV inhibitors [27-29], workers from Merck have shown that the incorporation of an acid moiety (or related bioisostere) into an amine-containing template to furnish a zwitterionic system has been ofuse in minimizing hERG activity. For example, incorporation of an acid bioisostere into the biaryl P-methylphenylalanine template has been shown to afford enhancements in selectivity over hERG (cf. compounds 40 and 41) [29]. A concomitant reduction in oral bioavailability was observed between the two compounds, which underlines the main limitation in this approach. 

The Pd-PPh3 system (Scheme 3) is characterized by a two-electron reduction step of the cr-aryl-palladium intermediate [37], as also proposed previously for aryl-nickel complexes ligated to PPha [23, 38]. The formation of the biaryl proceeds by reductive elimination from the diarylpalladium and regeneration of Pd°. 

Since ketone R)-16 was prepared in a non-selective way when an achiral imino enolate was alkylated, it was considered whether alkylation of chiral enolates, such as that of oxazoline 18, with benzyl bromide 14, would provide stereoselective access to the corresponding alkylation product 19 with R-configuration at C(8) (Scheme 4). Indeed, alkylation of 18 with 14 gave the biaryl 19 and its diastereoisomer almost quantitatively, in a 14 1 ratio. However, reductive hydrolysis using the sequence 1. MeOTf, 2. NaBH4, and 3. H30", afforded hydroxy aldehyde 20 in 25% yield at best. Furthermore, partial epimerization at C(8) occurred (dr 7.7 1). An alternative route, using chiral hydrazones, was even less successful. 

Reduction of a mixture of two aryl halides is not generally a good route to the mixed biaryl. Either a statistical mixture of the three possible biaryls is formed or, if one aryl halide is more reactive, this forms a single biaryl after which, the second aryl halide reacts with itself. The principal exception to this generalisation involves the reduction of a 1 1 mixture of an aryl bromide and 1-chloropyridine. Oxidative-addition to Ni(o) is faster for the carbon-bromine bond. The second oxidative-addition to ArNi(i) is faster for the 2-chloropyridinc, possibly due to complexation from the pyridine nitrogen. Overall, the 1-aryipyridine is formed in 55-80 % yields [200]. 

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