Carbonylation allenic substrates

Conceptually similar palladium-catalyzed cascade reactions have been developed, involving molecular-queuing cycloaddition, cyclocondensation and Diels-Alder reactions [71], cydization-anion-capture-olefin metathesis [72], carbonylation-allene insertion [73], carbonylation/amination/Michael addition [74], sequential Petasis reaction/palladium-catalyzed process [75], supported allenes as substrates [76], and palladium-ruthenium catalysts [77]. 

An allene moiety can serve as a nucleophile vis-a-vis a 7r-allylpalladium species generated from an allylic acetate moiety in substrates such as 495 (Scheme 124). The cyclization involving these two moieties generates another 7r-allyl intermediate, and the stage is set for the subsequent carbonylative cascade process as demonstrated by the transformation of 495 to 496.402... 

Burger2 has shown that alkynes undergo both Lewis acid-catalyzed and thermal carbonyl-yne reactions with 3,3,3-trifluoropyruvates to give allenes. Reaction of 1 (Equation (2)) occurs to give a 1 1 mixture of diastereomeric allenyl carbinols 2. Alternatively, reaction of hexyne 1 and methyl trifluoropyruvate with MgBr2-OEt2 at low temperature afforded 2 as an 8 1 mixture of diastereomers. The thermal reaction does not suffer from allylic alcohol byproducts arising from reaction of the substrate with the Lewis acid.3... 

Most of the substrates for these isomerizations have a tetrahedral carbon with at least one hydrogen substituent between the carbonyl group and the alkyne. Due to the comparable high acidity of this C-H bond neighboring the carbonyl group, already a weak base such as a carbonate, a tertiary amine or aluminum oxide can deprotonate this position and a subsequent protonation at the other end of the pro-pargyl/allenyl anion delivers the allene. 

In an alternative strategy functionalized phenols, such as iodophenol, were involved in palladium-catalyzed carbonylation of alkynes or allenes, producing coumarin or chromone derivatives (Scheme 23) [130-133]. After oxidative addition of the iodoarene to the Pd(0) catalyst the order of insertion of either CO or the unsaturated substrate mainly depends on the nature of the substrate. In fact, Alper et al. reported that CO insertion occurs prior to allene insertion leading to methylene- or vinyl-benzopyranone derivatives [130]. On the contrary, insertion of alkynes precedes insertion of CO, affording couma-rine derivatives, as reported by Larock et al. According to the authors, this unusual selectivity can be explained by the inability of the acyl palladium species to further react with the alkyne, hence the decarbonylation step occurs preferentially [131-133]. 

Abstract The basic principles of the oxidative carbonylation reaction together with its synthetic applications are reviewed. In the first section, an overview of oxidative carbonylation is presented, and the general mechanisms followed by different substrates (alkenes, dienes, allenes, alkynes, ketones, ketenes, aromatic hydrocarbons, aliphatic hydrocarbons, alcohols, phenols, amines) leading to a variety of carbonyl compounds are discussed. The second section is focused on processes catalyzed by Pdl2-based systems, and on their ability to promote different kind of oxidative carbonylations under mild conditions to afford important carbonyl derivatives with high selectivity and efficiency. In particular, the recent developments towards the one-step synthesis of new heterocyclic derivatives are described. 

Nickel-catalyzed cyclizations, couplings, and cycloadditions involving three reactive components have been an active area of research for the past decade [39,40]. Central to these reactions is the involvement of a low-valent nickel capable of facilitating oxidative coupling of an unsaturated hydrocarbon (such as an alkyne, allene, or alkene) and a carbonyl substrate (such as an aldehyde or ketone). The use of NHCs as ligands has been evaluated for couplings of aldehydes. Such reactions typically afford O-protected allylic alcohols in good yields. 

A much shorter route is the Reppe carbonylation [83] of propyne. Propyne is, together with propadiene (allene), part of the C3 stream of the cracking process. The order of metal substrate binding strength is allenes>alkynes>alkenes. Thus the desired reaction can only proceed if the propadiene has been removed from the feed, since it is an inhibitor of the Pd catalyst. Equally important, the alkyne complex reacts much faster than the alkene complex. Thus the product is neither a substrate nor an inhibitor for the catalyst (Scheme 5.46). 

Esters. Reductive carbonylation in the presence of an alcohol or phenol leads to an ester. Substrates include organoiodonium salts and allylic alcohols. p,y-Unsaturated thioesters can be generated by the method or from allenes. Note that y-lactones are formed when allylic alcohols are carbonylated without additives. ... 

The first carbon addition to allenes catalyzed by gold was described by Hashmi and was the addition of furans to allenones, a reaction that is discussed as a conjugate addition to carbonyls. Then the annulation of 2-allenyl indoles was described (equation 111)and an enantioselective version was later developed for terminal allenes. Then Nelson described the cyclization of an N-substituted pyrrol in the synthesis of (—)-Rhazinilam (equation 112). In that case, gold notably improved the yields and selectivities obtained with Pd(II) or Ag(l), and gave complete retention of the chiral information of the allene. The most recent report is on the hydroarylations of allenes with gold-covered substituted benzenes as substrates. ""... 

A number of Pd-catalyzed carbonylative processes have employed allenes as substrates for the synthesis of nitrogen heterocydes [108], For example, subjection of substituted allene 170 to reaction conditions similar to those employed in related reactions of alkenes led to the formation of pyrrolidine 171 in 68% yield with 2 1 dr (Eq. (1.67)) [108d], Modest asymmetric induction has been achieved in these transformations using simple chiral auxiliaries [108b,d]. This strategy was employed in an asymmetric synthesis of pumiliotoxin 251 D, which involved the aminocarbo-nylation of allene 172 to pyrrolidine 173 as a key step (Eq. (1.68)) [108b]. 

Backvall has reported the gold(III)-catalyzed cycloisomerization of allene-substituted malonic esters to form p,Y-unsaturated 6-lactones [115]. For example, treatment of allenyl malonate derivative 76 with a catalytic 1 3 mixture of AUCI3 and AgSbF in acetic acid at 70 °C led to isolation of 8-lactone 77 in 99% yield (Eq. (12.41)). The transformation was restricted to substrates that contained a terminally disubstituted allenyl moiety and presumably occurs via nucleophilic attack of the carbonyl oxygen atom on a gold-complexed allene followed by acetate-mediated demethylation and protodeauration. 

The mild palladium(II)-copper(II)-CO-02-HQ system was also applied to the oxidative carbonylation of formate esters and olefins. Higher yields as well as branched/Iinear ester ratio were obtained by using excess rather than an equimolar quantity of formate ester to substrate. " In addition, allenes and terminal alkynes undergo regioseleclive hydroester-ification to unsaturated mono- and diesters using the same catalytic system. f ii... 

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