Coupling reactions palladium® chloride

The palladium chloride process for oxidizing olefins to aldehydes in aqueous solution (Wacker process) apparendy involves an intermediate anionic complex such as dichloro(ethylene)hydroxopalladate(II) or else a neutral aqua complex PdCl2 (CH2=CH2)(H2 0). The coordinated PdCl2 is reduced to Pd during the olefin oxidation and is reoxidized by the cupric—cuprous chloride couple, which in turn is reoxidized by oxygen, and the net reaction for any olefin (RCH=CH2) is then... 

However, the Buchwald-Hartwig reaction with NHCs as hgands is not limited to palladium. Nickel has also been successfully employed in this catalytic amination. In situ procedures have been described for the coupling of aryl chlorides [163] and tosylates [164] and, more interestingly, anisoles [165]. The use of well-defined Ni(0) catalysts has also been studied [166] (Scheme 6.49). 

A palladium catalyst with a less electron-rich ligand, 2,2-dipyridyl-methylamine-based palladium complexes (4.2), is effective for coupling of aryl iodides or bromides with terminal alkynes in the presence of pyrrolidine and tetrabutylammonium acetate (TBAB) at 100°C in water.37 However, the reactions were shown to be faster in NMP solvent than in water under the reaction conditions. Palladium-phosphinous acid (POPd) was also reported as an effective catalyst for the Sonogashira cross-coupling reaction of aryl alkynes with aryl iodides, bromides, or chlorides in water (Eq. 4.18).38... 

The generated palladium chlorides possessing phosphinous acid ligands were found to be remarkably active and efficient catalysts in the presence of bases for a variety of cross-coupling reactions of aryl halides with aiylboronic... 

In summary, these results demonstrate that air-stable POPd, POPdl and POPd2 complexes can be directly employed to mediate the rate-limiting oxidative addition of unactivated aryl chlorides in the presence of bases, and that such processes can be incorporated into efficient catalytic cycles for a variety of cross-coupling reactions. Noteworthy are the efficiency for unactivated aryl chlorides simplicity of use, low cost, air- and moisture-stability, and ready accessibility of these complexes. Additional applications of these air-stable palladium complexes for catalysis are currently under investigation. 

Recent trend in the synthesis of olefinic pheromones is the use of transition metal-catalyzed cross coupling reaction for carbon-carbon bond formation. Scheme 8 summarizes a synthesis of the termite trail marker pheromone, (3Z,6Z)-3,6-dodecadien- l-ol (2) by Oehlschlager [19]. The key-step is the palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling of allylic chloride A and alkenylalane B. 

Activated aryl chlorides, which are close in reactivity to unactivated aryl bromides, underwent reaction with the original P(o-tol)3-ligated catalyst.58 Nickel complexes, which catalyze classic C—C bond-forming cross-couplings of aryl chlorides, 9-64 also catalyzed aminations of aryl chlorides under mild conditions.65,66 However, the nickel-catalyzed chemistry generally occurred with lower turnover numbers and with a narrower substrate scope than the most efficient palladium-catalyzed reactions. 

The palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction featured in this procedure occurs under neutral conditions in the presence of many synthetically useful functional groups (e.g. alcohol, ester, nitro, acetal, ketone, and aldehyde). The reaction works best in N,N-dimethylformamide with bis(triphenylphosphine)palladium(ll) chloride, PdCI2(PPh3)2, as the catalyst. Lithium chloride is added to prevent decomposition of the catalyst.143 13 It is presumed that conversion of the intermediate aryl palladium triflate to an aryl palladium chloride is required for the transmetallation step to proceed.9... 

A variety of triazole-based monophosphines (ClickPhos) 141 have been prepared via efficient 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of readily available azides and acetylenes and their palladium complexes provided excellent yields in the amination reactions and Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reactions of unactivated aryl chlorides <06JOC3928>. A novel P,N-type ligand family (ClickPhine) is easily accessible using the Cu(I)-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition reaction and was tested in palladium-catalyzed allylic alkylation reactions <06OL3227>. Novel chiral ligands, (S)-(+)-l-substituted aryl-4-(l-phenyl) ethylformamido-5-amino-1,2,3-triazoles 142,... 

When Knochel and his co-workers attempted to use [PdC CF CN ] and related palladium(n) complexes as catalysts in the reactions of dialkylzincs with alkyl iodides, they observed the formation of the halogen-zinc exchange405 or cyclization406 products only. A recent paper of Zhou and Fu demonstrated that palladium complexes can also be used in the coupling reactions of alkylzinc bromides with alkyl iodides, bromides, chlorides, and... 

A rapid MW-assisted palladium-catalyzed coupling of heteroaryl and aryl boronic acids with iodo- and bromo-substituted benzoic acids, anchored on TentaGel has been achieved [174]. An environmentally friendly Suzuki cross-coupling reaction has been developed that uses polyethylene glycol (PEG) as the reaction medium and palladium chloride as a catalyst [175]. A solventless Suzuki coupling has also been reported on palladium-doped alumina in the presence of potassium fluoride as a base [176], This approach has been extended to Sonogashira coupling reaction wherein terminal alkynes couple readily with aryl or alkenyl iodides on palladium-doped alumina in the presence of triphenylphosphine and cuprous iodide (Scheme 6.52) [177]. 

Chlorophenyl)-4-phenyl-l,2,5-thiadiazole 128 was prepared from 3-trifluoromethylsulfonyloxy-4-phenyl-1,2,5-thiadiazole 127 by palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction with the tributyl(4-chlorophenyl)stannane (Equation 20) <1996H(43)2435>. The addition of lithium chloride improves the yield. The 3-chloro- and 3-bromo-l,2,5-thiadiazole derivatives were also reactive, but only the bromo compound gave the product in comparable yield (see Section 5.09.7.6). 

Scheme 4. Palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions of aryl chlorides...

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