Sonogashira copper-free

A copper-free Sonogashira coupling reaction in ionic liquids and its application to a microflow system for efficient catalyst recycling, Org. Lett. 4, 10 (2002) 1691-1694. 

McLaughlin and co-workers have described a one-pot copper-free Sonogashira alkynylation and base-mediated indolization reaction to access 1,2-disubstituted indoles 125 and azaindoles from o-chloroanilines 123 <060L3307>. A ligand-, copper, and amine-free variant of the Sonogashira coupling was used by Srinivasan and co-workers to access 2-substituded indoles <06T5109>. 

Hierso et al reported a copper-free, Sonogashira reaction for a number of activated and deactivated aryl halides with alkyl-/aryl acetylenes and using a variety of metallic precursors, bases and tertiary phosphanes in [bmim][BF4]. They found that a combination of [Pd(/7 -C3H5)Cl]2/PPh3 with 1 % pyrrolidine in the absence of copper showed the highest activity. 

The dendrimers 23a-c were used in a copper-free Sonogashira-type coupling reaction between phenylacetylene and iodobenzene or bromobenzene. The catalyst amount was 1 mol % per catalytic group (i.e., 1/4, 1/8 and 1/16 mol% depending on the dendrimer generation generations 1, 2 and 3), and the temperature range was 25-120 °C. 

Scheme 8. Copper-free Sonogashira reactions in [C4mim][PF6].

A, A -dimethylaniline group has been synthesized by a copper-free Sonogashira cross-coupling reaction using microwave irradiation as the source of energy <2006EJO2344>. The electrochemical and photophysical properties of the triad were systematically investigated by techniques such as time-resolved fluorescence and transient absorption spectroscopy. 

However, the use of basic anions is not the sole approach followed to obtaining basic ILs. Liquid salts bearing this additional property can be prepared also by incorporation of a basic center into the cation. This approach generally affords more thermally stable ILs than those based on basic anions, which frequently present relatively low decomposition temperatures. Basic ionic liquids bearing aliphatic or aromatic amines on the side chain(s) have been synthesized and, recently, some of these have been used as both the solvent and base for Heck, copper free Sonogashira, and for homocoupling reactions of terminal alkynes (Figure 4.2). 

Scheme 7.2 Copper-free Sonogashira coupling reaction in supercritical water...

High-pressure and high-temperature conditions are effective for flash chemistry. It has been reported that copper-free Sonogashira coupling... 

In copper-free Sonogashira coupling the competition of ligand and amine base determines the reaction mechanism. The oxidative addition of Arl with (Ph3P)4Pd is faster when amine is present. With the proposed mechanisms the efficiency of PhsP > PhsAs is explained. 

Choudhary BM, Madhi S, Chowdari NS, Kantam ML, Sreedhar B (2002) Copper-free Sonogashira reaction with transition-metal nanoparticles. J Am Chem Soc 124 14127... 

Li and coworkers reported the use of Pd(OAc)2/DABCO/air/CH3CN for a copper-free Sonogashira reaction using only 0.01 mol% [100]. 

Interesting is the development of concept of copper-free Sonogashira reaction in which Cul catalyst was not used (Scheme 2.15). In these reactions, coupUng products 47 in various yields were still obtained (Table 2.14), probably due to the presence of trace amounts of copper in palladium reagent. When copper catalyst-free reaction was carried out with copper milling balls as a source of copper, yields increased to 31-88% (Table 2.15). Finally, copper vials in combination with copper balls as a source of copper afforded respectable yields in the range of42-90% (Table 2.16). 

Table 2.14 Copper-Free" Sonogashira Reactions of p-Substituted Benzenes ...

The terminal alkyne can also be generated in situ via copper-free Sonogashira cross-coupling of trimethylsilyl acetylene (5a) and aryl halides 6 and subsequent cleavage with TBAF, caibonylation, and cyclization (Scheme 26) (20090L(11)3210). This microwave-assisted sequence allows the rapid synthesis of the title compounds in moderate to good yields. Each compound can be easily varied with exception to trimethylsilyl acetylene. The application of electron-rich aryl bromides and iodides expectedly decreases the yields. 

Both binuclear and trinuclear oxalamidinate palladium complexes were employed by Rau, Walther and coworkers [79] in copper-free Sonogashira reactions. The peculiarity of the system was seen to reside in the presence of chemical bridges that allowed electronic communication between metal centers (Scheme... 

Y. Ikushima, Rapid and highly selective copper-free Sonogashira coupling in high-... 

In 2007, Lee and coworkers reported the synthesis of a core-shell type polymer-supported (NHC)-Pd catalyst 28 (Figure 4.8), which was used to catalyze copper-free Sonogashira reactions under ambient atmosphere [39]. The... 

Two alternative mechanisms are proposed for the copper-free Sonogashira reactions, performed from Phi and HO—CH GHj—C=CH (Scheme 19.34) path A when the alkyne is a better ligand than the amine for the Pd center in PhPdlL [43a, c] or path B when the amine is a better ligand than the alkyne [43a]. This explains why the catalytic reactions are very sensitive to the base (path B more efficient than path A) [43a]. Consequently, the amine does not react as a simple base in copper-free Sonogashira reactions but may also be involved as ligand for aryl-Pd complexes [43a, b]. 

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