Carbopalladation cascade reaction

Patterns of cyclic carbopalladation. As discussed above, the fundamentally stoichiometric and living nature of carbopalladation imposes various difficulties to be overcome. Carbopalladation can, in principle, be either a single-stage process or double- or multiple-stage processes. Double-and multiple-stage carbopalladation reactions have often been called either domino or cascade carbopalladation reactions. In some cases, two-stage carbopalladation reactions have also been called tandem carbopalladation reactions. None of these three words is a chemical term, and choice between them is a matter of taste. In this chapter, the term cascade will be used for both double- and multiple-stage carbopalladation processes. 

As discussed in conjunction with the intermolecular cascade carbopalladation reaction shown in Scheme 4, it has been very difficult to satisfactorily control both queuing or pair -selectivity and regioselectivity of intermolecular cascade carbopalladation processes. Consequently, essentially all of the cascade carbopalladation reactions discussed here are at least partially intramolecular. The currently known cyclic cascade carbopalladation processes can be classified into a few to several types shown in Scheme 6. 

Maddaford SP, Andersen NG, Cristofoli WA, Reay BA (1996) J Am Chem Soc 118 10766 For a comprehensive review of Pd-mediated cascade carbopalladation reactions, see Neg-ishi E, Coperet C, Ma S, Liou S, Liu F (1996) Chem Rev 96 365. A number of other articles in this issue touch on the subject of sequential metal-mediated transformations Rojima A, Honzawa S, Boden CDJ, Shibasaki M (1997) Tetrahedron Lett 38 3455 Trost BM (1995) Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 34 259... 

Intramolecular reaction can be used for polycyclization reaction[275]. In the so-called Pd-catalyzed cascade carbopalladation of the polyalkenyne 392, the first step is the oxidative addition to alkenyl iodide. Then the intramolecular alkyne insertion takes place twice, followed by the alkene insertion twice. The last step is the elimination of/3-hydrogen. In this way, the steroid skeleton 393 is constructed from the linear diynetriene 392(276]. 

In their pioneering work on the catalytic carbopalladation reaction of 1,2-heptadiene with phenyl iodide in the presence of a suitable base, Shimizu and Tsuji observed the formation of the corresponding substituted 1,3-dienes 62 via a / -hydride elimination from the 7z>allyl intermediate 61 [61]. Based on these observations, a three-component Heck-Diels-Alder cascade process has been developed by Grigg and co-workers [73]. A wide variety of aryl and heteroaryl iodides were used for the intermolecular reaction with dimethylallene to afford the corresponding 1,3-dienes. These subsequently react in situ with N-methylmaleimide to give the bicyclic adducts 63 (Scheme 8.30). 

A couple of prototypical examples of the cyclic version of the Heck reaction, defined as a process consisting of alkene carbopalladation followed by -elimination, were reported during the 1984-1985 period [9,10]. Almost concurrently, seminal examples of both the non-Heck cyclic carbopallation reactions [10,30] were reported during the 1983-1985 period. Thus, with due respect paid to earlier discoveries of alkyne cyclooligomerization via cascade carbopalladation [7,8] as well as copolymerization [24] and cocyclization [25,... 

Negishi E, Coperet C (2002) Palladium-Catalyzed Tandem and Cascade Carbopalladation of Alkynes and 1,1-Disubstituted Alkenes Terminated by Carbonylative Reactions. In Negishi E, de Meijere A (eds) Handbook of Organopalladium Chemistry for Organic Synthesis. Wiley, New York, p 1431... 

Pd-catalysed cyclisations also feature in the synthesis of isocoumarins. Outstanding in this context is the cascade carbopalladation in which the pentacyclic compound (17) is formed in 66 % yield from the acyclic precursor (16). The range of examples given enable the course of reactions involving competing Pd-catalysed processes to be predicted (94JA7923). 

In this latter reaction mode, which is observed much more rarely than /3-dehydropal-ladation, a wide variety of ligands can be coupled to each other with the formation of new C—C, C—H, C— N, C—O, and C—Hal bonds. This section does not cover the numerous cascade couplings in which a number of successive intramolecular additions of 2 onto double bonds is eventually completed by /3-dehydropalladationt as well as the numerous [2 -I- 2 -I- 2] and [4 + 2] cyclotri- and cyclodimerizations of alkynes, enynes, and related compounds. " The Pd(0)-catalyzed Cope rearrangement also will not be considered here, as it proceeds via bis(i7 -allyl)palladium(ll) intermediates. The carbopalladation reactions of aUenes, which have been reviewed recently, are covered in Sect. IV.7. (For new examples see also refs. [10]-[12]). On the other hand, the numerous Pd-catalyzed formal [3 + 2] cycloadditions of trimethylenemethane (TMM) complexes may be classified as carbopalladations of alkenes without subsequent dehydropalladation. As the subject of this section has partially been covered in several newly published reviews, " the attention here will be on the most recent and interesting communications. 

D.i.b. Insertion of Another Alkenyl Unit In certain cases, however, the 3-exo-trig process may be retarded and an additional alkene moiety participates in the cascade carbopalladation. A pioneering example of this kind has been demonstrated by Overman and co-workers in their total synthesis of scopadulcic acid A, starting from an iodoaUcenyl-substituted methylenecycloheptene derivative (Scheme 24). The first intramolecular carbopalladation occurs across the disubstituted double bond of the exomethylene group, and the trisubstituted endocyclic double bond acts as the terminator to give a tricyclic system, which was further elaborated to the natural product (Scheme 24). It is remarkable that all three quaternary carbon centers can be created by intramolecular Heck reactions. 

An analogous reaction mode is followed in the 1 2 cross-coupling of 2-bromostyrene with acenaphthylene, which yields a bisannelated tetrahydrofulvene (Scheme 48)J Norbomene can favorably serve as a relay for cascade carbopalladations as the /S-hydride elimination is virtually impossible. The reaction always starts with an alkenyl-or arylpaUadium starter, generated either by oxidative addition of an alkenyl or aryl halide to a paUadium(O) species or by hydro- or carbopalladation of an alkyne, adding to the double bond. With /3-bromostyrene, norbomene can yield the same type of bisannelated tetrahydrofulvene derivative " as with acenaphthylene, but under different reaction conditions can also react with a 2 1 stoichiometry to give a cyclohexadiene-annelated norbomane derivative (Scheme 49). ... 

A cascade Heck reaction with termination by nucleophiles is considered to start with an oxidative addition of a heteroatom-carbon bond (starter) onto a palladium(O) species (startup reaction), followed by carbopalladation of a nonaromatic carbon-carbon double or triple bond without subsequent dehydropalladation (relay), a second and possibly further carbopalladation of a carbon-carbon double or triple bond (second etc. relay). The terminating step is a displacement of the palladium residue by an appropriate nucleophile. It is crucial for a successful cascade carbopalladation that no premature dehydropalladation takes place, and that can be prevented by using alkynes and 1,1-disubstituted alkenes (or certain cycloalkenes) as relay stations since they give kinetically stable alkenyl- or neopentylpalladium intermediates, respectively. In addition, reaction of haloalkenes with alkenes in certain cases may form rr-allyl complexes, which are then trapped by various nucleophiles. 

There are hardly any examples for the use of sulfur nucleophiles in terminating cascade carbopalladation sequences, in contrast to oxygen and especially nitrogen nucleophiles. One reason for this might be found in the problems associated with the high degree of coordination of the palladium with the less oxidized sulfur nucleophiles such as thiols. However, arylsulfinates are excellent nucleophiles for cascade termination reactions, as has been shown by Grigg et al. (Scheme 34). ... 

IV.3.3 Palladium-Catalyzed Tandem and Cascade Carbopalladation of Alkynes and 1,1-Disubstituted Alkenes Terminated by Carbonylative Reactions... 

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