Carbon-palladium bonds, carbopalladation

In analogy to the mechanism of the palladium-catalyzed enyne cyclization, it is postulated that exposure of palladium(O) to acetic acid promotes in situ generation of hydridopalladium acetate LnPd"(H)(OAc). Alkyne hydrometallation affords the vinylpalladium complex A-10, which upon r-carbopalladation of the appendant alkyne provides intermediate B-7. Silane-mediated cleavage of carbon-palladium bond liberates the cyclized product along palladium(O), which reacts with acetic acid to regenerate hydridopalladium acetate to close the cycle (Scheme 33). 

Trapping of carbopalladation adducts via cross-coupling with organometals leads to the substitution of the carbon-palladium bond with a carbon-carbon bond. Alkynes bearing proximate aryl (Scheme 42) and alkenyl (Scheme 43), halide fragments or allyl acetate groups (Scheme 44) and a variety of organometals can be used for such a transformation. 

The first step in the cycle, analogous to the cross-coupling reactions, is the oxidative addition of an aryl (vinyl) halide or sulfonate onto the low oxidation state metal, usually palladium(O). The second step is the coordination of the olefin followed by its insertion into the palladium-carbon bond (carbopalladation). In most cases palladium is preferentially attached to the sterically less hindered end of the carbon-carbon double bond. The product is released from the palladium in a / -hydrogen elimination and the active form of the catalyst is regenerated by the loss of HX in a reductive elimination step. To facilitate the process an equivalent amount of base is usually added to the reaction mixture. 

Palladium-catalyzed vinylations of aryl halides are generally referred to as the Heck reaction (for reviews on the Heck reaction see [34-40]), a versatile process that can be performed inter- and intramolecularly [41]. In the Heck reaction the carbon-carbon single bond forming step is an insertion of an al-kene into the aryl-Pd bond, i.e., a carbopalladation, giving rise to an alkyl-Pd species. If this insertion is terminated by /1-hydride elimination the expected vinylation product is the outcome of the classical Heck reaction. Likewise, reversible insertion of a highly strained olefin where the /1-hydride elimination is suppressed leads to an entry to multiple Pd-catalyzed bond forming processes. 

In more complex reaction cascades an additional alkyne-insertion step can occur. Thus starting with intramolecular carbopalladation of a vinyl iodide to a carbon-carbon triple bond, followed by two intramolecular alkene-insertion steps and termination with dehydropalladation, a palladium-catalyzed synthesis of l-(5 -methylbicyclo[3.1.0]hex-T-yl)-5,5-bis(carboethoxy)cyclo-hexadiene (52) starting from l-iodo-4,4-bis(carboethoxy)-ll-methyldodeca-l,ll-dien-6-yne (51) is achieved. ... 

C.i.a. Four-Centered Processes. The carbopalladation of a C,C multiple bond with a carbon-palladium single bonds is the key step in the catalytic cycle of the standard Heck reaction, the intermolecular version of which has been used extensively since its discovery for the functionalization and derivatization of aryl and alkenyl halides, as well as alkenyl triflates or the more reactive nonafiates, which are readily available from the corresponding ketones (Scheme 2) (Sect. IV.2.1.2). 

The observed general predominance of cis addition products following the carbopalladation step (Schemes la and 2) and the formation of cyclic derivatives (Scheme lb) appear to argue in favor of a mechanism involving a syn addition of the organic residue and the palladium moiety to the carbon-carbon triple bond. The appearance of final products as trans derivatives is more likely to indicate the intermediacy of cis -adducts capable of isomerization to the tran -adducts (Scheme 3) rather than the existence of a direct trans addition paralleling the cis addition pathway. 

Examples of this trend are numerons. For instance, steric effects appear to be responsible for the remarkable legioselectivity observed in the Pd-catalyzed hydroalkeny-lation of 4-phenylcyclohex-l-enyl triflate with l-(p-acetamidophenyl)-3,3-dimethyl-l-propyne in the presence of potassium formate (Scheme 5). In this reaction, which is also highly stereoselective, the added alkenyl group is placed regioselectively on the less stoically encumbered end of the carbon-carbon triple bond and the hydrogen (the palladium moiety in the carbopalladation adduct) on the more stericaUy congested end. 

Carbopalladation has also been employed in the construction of six-membered rings. Most examples are 6-exo cyclizations as is the pyran ring synthesis (107—>108) used in the construction of ( )-6a-epipretazettine 109 and ( )-tazettine (Scheme 17). The Heck cyclization formed a quaternary center with a diastereoselectivity in excess of 20 1. The selectivity of the reaction is of particular interest in this case as it provides information about the orientation of the carbon-palladium a bond and the reacting aUcene in the carbopalladation transition state. Two limiting transition state geometries for the closure are intermediate 110, which leads to the observed product, and intermediate 111, which would lead to a diastereomer. In the preferred transition state 110, the carbon-palladium (7 bond and alkene are eclipsed, which is a lower energy state than the corresponding twisted orientation 111. 

Domino or cascade reactions provide valuable approaches, especially to various carbo- and heterocyclic systems with three, four, or even more annelated rings. The Heck reaction has successfully been employed in various inter-inter-, intra-inter-, inter-intra-, as well as all-intramolecular reaction cascades, hi this section, the termination of these processes by alkenes, arenes, and related ir-bond systems such as alkynes and allenes will be described. A cascade Heck reaction is considered to consist of an oxidative addition of a heteroatom-carbon bond to palladium (starter), carbopalladation of a nonaromatic carbon-carbon double or triple bond without immediate dehydropalladation (relay), one, two, or more fimher car-bopalladation(s) of a carbon-carbon double or triple bond, and eventually ensuing dehydropalladation. Crucial for a cascade reaction of this kind to occur is the blockage or retardation of a dehydropalladation at one of the intermediate stages by using 1,1-disubsti-tuted alkenes and appropriately substimted cycloalkenes, bicycloalkenes, or alkynes as relays since they give kinetically stable alkyl- or alkenylpalladium intermediates, respectively. 

The carbonylative palladium-catalyzed reactions discussed in this section proceed by oxidative addition of palladium (0) to the carbon-X bond of aryl/vinyl/acyl halides and pseudohalides followed by carbon monoxide insertion, giving rise to an acylpalla-dium intermediate. The acylpalladium intermediate can in turn react with various tethered nucleophiles (a), be involved in activation/hetero or carbopalladation steps with unsaturated carbon-carbon bonds (b), or participate in cascade reactions (c) (Scheme 13.1). 

Mono- or di-arylaied products may be formed by a-arylation of -dicarbonyl compounds, such as malonamide esters, with arynes generated by reaction of fluoride with ortho-silylaryltriflates. A similar method of benzyne generation has been used in the a-arylation of -ketoamides in a procedure which may be modified to yield asymmettic products. The reaction of 2-haloacetanilides with arynes in the presence of a palladium catalyst may produceiV-acylcarbazoles such as (26). Possible pathways are initial formation of a palladacycle with aryne followed by oxidative addition of the haloacetanilide, or direct insertion of the palladium into the carbon-halogen bond of the acetanilide followed by carbopalladation of the aryne. ... 

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