Cross-coupling reactions aqueous media

Even higher selectivity is achieved in the palladium(II)/copper(I)-cocat-alyzed cross-coupling reactions. Conjugated enynes 76 can be synthesized with high stereoselectivity by the reaction of alkenyliodonium triflates 75 with terminal alkynes in the presence of catalytic amounts of dichloro(triphe-nylphosphine)palladium(II) and Cul in aqueous medium (Scheme 34) [59]. 

I. P. Palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction of organostannoates with aryl halides in aqueous medium. Tetrahedron Lett. 1995, 36, 125-128. 

Palladium complexes of TPPTS and TPPMS have been employed extensively as catalysts for carbonylation, hydroxycarbonylation, and C—C cross-coupling reactions (cf. Section 6.6). Hydroxycarbonylation of bromobenzene in biphasic medium using Pd(TPPTS)3 as catalyst yields benzoic acid, which remains in the aqueous phase, thus avoiding the direct recycling of the catalyst [59]. The formation of Pd(TPPTS)3 from PdCl2 and TPPTS in aqueous solution has been studied in detail by 170, 1H 31P, and 35C1 NMR spectroscopy. The complex [ PdCI(TPPTS)3 Cl obtained initially is reduced by excess TPPTS, TPPTSO being formed. A more attractive synthesis of Pd(TPPTS)3 involves the facile reduction of [PdCl-(TPPTS)3]+C1- with CO (Scheme 1) [60],... 

The cationic palladium(II) complex [Pd(24a)3Cl]+ of the para-isomer of 24a (M = Na) catalyzes the carbonylation of benzyl chloride in basic medium to give phenyl-acetic acid in high yields. The Pd(0) complex [Pd(24a)3], formed by reduction of [Pd(24a)3Cl]+ with CO, is asumed to be the catalytic species [93] (see Scheme 1). Palladium complexes of ligands related to 24a (M = Na) have also been employed in aqueous ethylene glycol phases as catalysts for Suzuki-type C—C cross-coupling reactions for the syntheses of substituted biphenyls (cf. Section 6.6) [97]. 

For insoluble development in Heck-type reactions is P-C and N-C bond formation, which results from coupling of aryl halides with phosphorous compounds [38] and amines [39]. The first application in aqueous medium was achieved by coupling of a dialkyl phosphite with an aromatic iodide to give an arylphosphonate in 99% yield. In 1996, Stelzer and co-workers presented a P-C cross-coupling reaction between primary and secondary phosphines and functional aryl iodides to water-soluble phosphines [Eq. (9)], which are potentially applicable as ligands in aqueous-phase catalysis [40]. 

Genet, J.P., Blart, E. and Savignac, M. (1992) Palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions in a homogeneous aqueous medium. Synlett, 715-7. 

Kang, S.K. Lee, H.W. Jang, S.B. Ho, P.S. (1996) Palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions of aryl-iodonium, alkenyl-iodonium and alkynyl-iodonium salts and iodanes with terminal alkynes in aqueous-medium, Chem. Commun., 835-6. 

Hummel, W., and Groger, H. (2012) Combination of a Suzuki cross-coupling reaction using a water-soluble palladium catalyst with an asymmetric enzymatic reduction towards a one-pot process in aqueous medium at room temperature. J. Mol. Catal. B Enzym., 84, 89-93. 

Cross-coupling in homogeneous aqueous medium.1 A catalyst 1 prepared from Pd(OAc)2 and TPPTS (5 1) is soluble in HiO-CH CN or H20-cthanol. It is highly effective in various reactions that have been effected with Pd(OAc)2. It is effective for inter- and intramolecular Heck reactions, for coupling of vinyl or aryl iodides with terminal alkynes, and for allylic substitution. 

The cross-coupling of boron compounds with aryl or alkenyl halides (Suzuki coupling) was used for the preparation of polycyclic aromatic compounds in a biphasic reaction medium. For example, 2-bromobenzonitrile and 4-methylphenylboronic acid gave 4-methyl-2"-cyanobiphenyl in good jdeld with Pd/TPPTS catalyst at 80°C in a toluene-ethanol-aqueous Na2C03 solvent mixture (Scheme 37). The product, isolated by phase separation, was free of metal or ligand impurities and the catalyst could be recycled in the aqueous phase (208). 

Dilithium tetrachlorocuprate is recommended as an additive for cross coupling of Grignard compounds with tosylates even allylic and benzylic acetates give good yields . a-Methylene-ketones, -carboxylic acids and -lactones have been prepared via sulfides and sulfoxides. A convenient and general synthesis of acetylene derivatives from boranes via the reaction of iodine with lithium 1-alkynyltriorganoborates has been published ar-Nitrostyrenes can be easily obtained by a Wittig synthesis with formaldehyde in an aqueous medium . A new synthesis of unsym. ketones by reaction of dialkyldiloroboranes with lithium aldimines has recently been published . Metallo aldimines have also served for the synthesis of a variety of other compound classes such as a-hydroxyketones, a-keto acids, nitriles, and for the asym. synthesis of a-amino acids . Polycondensations of malononitriles with benzylic chlorides have been carried out quantitatively under mild conditions in dimethyl sulfoxide with triethylamine as acid acceptor . Carbonyl compounds can react with dibromoacetonitrile to yield a-bromo esters with additional carbon atom . ... 

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