Copper alkynes

A number of stable heterobimetallic copper alkyne complexes have been reported, based on the strategy of using another metal bis(alkynyl) complex as a chelating ligand for copper. The 1,4-diyne [(r -CsFGSiMe Ti-(C=GSiMe3)2]180 (or related complex) was found to stabilize the copper units GuX, with X = alkyl,180,181 vinyl,180... 

Figure 35 X-ray structures of the copper alkyne compounds 85-87. 85 reproduced with permission from ACS publications. 85 and 87 reproduced with permission from Elsevier. 

There seems to be consensus that a copper-alkyne bond is homolytically broken by oxygen (often just air) and the radicals thus formed, couple ... 

Scheme 7.17. Examples of the Stephens-Castro coupling reaction. In reaction (a), coupling between an aryl iodide (iodobenzene) and the organometallic (copper) alkyne [copper(p-methylphenyl)ethyne] produces the diarylacetylene. In reaction (b), the same process, this time starting with a vinyliodide (iodoethene), generates a vinylacetylene [4-(p-methylphenyl)-l-buten-3-yne],...

Terminal alkynes react with propargylic carbonates at room temperature to afford the alka-l, 2-dien-4-yne 14 (allenylalkyne) in good yield with catalysis by Pd(0) and Cul[5], The reaction can be explained by the transmetallation of the (7-allenylpailadium methoxide 4 with copper acetylides to form the allenyKalk-ynyl)palladium 13, which undergoes reductive elimination to form the allenyl alkyne 14. In addition to propargylic carbonates, propargylic chlorides and acetates (in the presence of ZnCb) also react with terminal alkynes to afford allenylalkynes[6], Allenylalkynes are prepared by the reaction of the alkynyl-oxiranes 15 with zinc acetylides[7]. 

Copper Acetylene and alkynes, ammonium nitrate, azides, bromates, chlorates, iodates, chlorine, ethylene oxide, fluorine, peroxides, hydrogen sulflde, hydrazinium nitrate... 

Tertiary bismuthines appear to have a number of uses in synthetic organic chemistry (32), eg, they promote the formation of 1,1,2-trisubstituted cyclopropanes by the iateraction of electron-deficient olefins and dialkyl dibromomalonates (100). They have also been employed for the preparation of thin films (qv) of superconducting bismuth strontium calcium copper oxide (101), as cocatalysts for the polymerization of alkynes (102), as inhibitors of the flammabihty of epoxy resins (103), and for a number of other industrial purposes. 

Using a number of other aldehydes, more compHcated products result. Stmcture (2) was also found to react with alkynes in the presence of copper(I) chloride to give furans ... 

The perfluoroacetylenic copper compounds undergo coupling reactions with aryl iodides and provide a useful synthetic route to the perfluoroalkyl aryl alkynes [147, 255] (equation 170) Coupling of these copper reagents with the 1-iodo-perfluoroalkynes gives the perfluorodiynes [747 255] (equation 171)... 

A unique method to generate the pyridine ring employed a transition metal-mediated 6-endo-dig cyclization of A-propargylamine derivative 120. The reaction proceeds in 5-12 h with yields of 22-74%. Gold (HI) salts are required to catalyze the reaction, but copper salts are sufficient with reactive ketones. A proposed reaction mechanism involves activation of the alkyne by transition metal complexation. This lowers the activation energy for the enamine addition to the alkyne that generates 121. The transition metal also behaves as a Lewis acid and facilitates formation of 120 from 118 and 119. Subsequent aromatization of 121 affords pyridine 122. 

The cyanobenzylpiperidine 94 acts as an effective benzoyl anion equivalent for addition to alkynes. As shown, the initial adduct 95 is readily cleaved with copper sulfate to give the ketone product 96 (93LA375). 

Finally, zinc-copper exchange by treatment of FG RZnI witli Me2CufCN)Li2 provides copper species thal add smootlily lo various alkynes and which can also he used lo perforcn cyclizalion reactions fScheme 2.48) [98]. 

The Glaser reaction is an oxidative coupling of terminal alkynes 1 to yield a symmetrical Z -acetylene 2 the coupling step is catalyzed by a copper salt. Closely related is the Eglinton reaction, which differs from the Glaser reaction mainly by the use of stoichiometric amounts of copper salt as oxidizing agent. 

The two reactions described above can be applied for the synthesis of symmetrical -acetylenes only. Unsymmetrical bis-acetylenes can be prepared by using the Cadiot-Chodkiew icz reaction For that method a terminal alkyne 1 is reacted with a bromoalkyne 8 in the presence of a copper catalyst, to yield an unsymmetrical coupling product 9 ... 

The original Sonogashira reaction uses copper(l) iodide as a co-catalyst, which converts the alkyne in situ into a copper acetylide. In a subsequent transmeta-lation reaction, the copper is replaced by the palladium complex. The reaction mechanism, with respect to the catalytic cycle, largely corresponds to the Heck reaction.Besides the usual aryl and vinyl halides, i.e. bromides and iodides, trifluoromethanesulfonates (triflates) may be employed. The Sonogashira reaction is well-suited for the synthesis of unsymmetrical bis-2xy ethynes, e.g. 23, which can be prepared as outlined in the following scheme, in a one-pot reaction by applying the so-called sila-Sonogashira reaction ... 

Although beyond the scope of the present discussion, another key realization that has shaped the definition of click chemistry in recent years was that while olefins, through their selective oxidative functionalization, provide convenient access to reactive modules, the assembly of these energetic blocks into the final structures is best achieved through cydoaddition reactions involving carbon-het-eroatom bond formation, such as [l,3]-dipolar cydoadditions and hetero-Diels-Al-der reactions. The copper(i)-catalyzed cydoaddition of azides and terminal alkynes [5] is arguably the most powerful and reliable way to date to stitch a broad variety... 

The diazonio group of arenediazonium salts can be replaced by alkenes and alkynes or, seen from the other reaction partner, alkenes and alkynes can be arylated with arenediazonium salts. The reactions are catalyzed by copper salts and, as found more recently, also by salts of palladium and other metals. 

Fleming has shown (2) that the cuprate reagent (Chapter 8) derived from dimethylphenylsilyl lithium and copper(t) cyanide (molar ratio 2 1) adds regioselectively in an overall syn manner to terminal alkynes, the silyl moiety becoming attached to the terminal carbon atom (variation in reagent... 

Sulfonyl bromides and iodides react similarly217-218-225 copper-salt catalysis in these cases facilitates the additions but is not absolutely necessary however, it influences the stereochemistry of the additions. Addition of sulfonyl iodides226 as well as the uncatalyzed thermal addition of sulfonyl bromides227 to alkynes leads to an exclusive trans-addition, whereas CuBr2 catalysis in the latter case causes the formation of cis-addition products to some extent (11 16%) correspondingly, copper-salt catalysis in sulfonyl chloride additions to alkynes leads to the formation of a mixture of Z,E-isomers228-229 (equation 40). 

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