Cross-coupling reactions oxidative additions

It proceeds by the standard mechanism for cross-coupling reactions oxidative addition of Pd(0) to the C-I bond, transmetallation to give the C-Pd(II)-C compound, and reductive elimination. 

In a generahzed and simpHfied mechanism, the reaction usually follows the standard catalytic cycle of metal-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions oxidative addition of the C(sp ) -X bond to paUadium(O), followed by coordination of the amine to the resulting palladium complex, occurring with extrusion of HX that is captured by the base. Finally, reductive elimination yields the couphng product, regenerating the catalyticaUy active paUadium(O) species. 

Oxidative addition of substrates possessing C-X or H-X bonds of medium polarity and of substrates possessing Ar-X bonds that cannot undergo S 2 pathways often occur by concerted pathways involving three-centered transition states more like those of the oxidative additions of nonpolar substrates. The clearest cases in which reactions occiu by concerted pathways are the oxidative additions of aryl halides and sulfonates to paUadium(0) complexes. These reactions have been studied extensively because they are the first step of transition-metal-catalyzed nucleophilic aromatic substitution reactions called cross couplings. The oxidative additions of the O-H and N-H bonds in water, alcohols, and amines also appear to occur by concerted three-centered transition states in many cases. 

Karodia et al. reported [123] a eonvenient method for the acid-catalyzed Michael addition reactions of alcohols, thiols, and amines to methyl vinyl ketone, using the IL ethyltri- -butylphosphonium tosylate. Recently, phosphonium-based ILs have been used [124] in the degradation of phenol, esterification, Wittig reaction, Heck reactions, Suzuki cross-coupling reactions, oxidation of benzyl halides [125], etc. Phos-phonium tosylates are used as solvents in catalytic hydroformy lation reactions these catalyst systems are noncorrosive and can readily be recovered and reused [126]. 

Carbon-carbon bond formation reactions and the CH activation of methane are another example where NHC complexes have been used successfully in catalytic applications. Palladium-catalysed reactions include Heck-type reactions, especially the Mizoroki-Heck reaction itself [171-175], and various cross-coupling reactions [176-182]. They have also been found useful for related reactions like the Sonogashira coupling [183-185] or the Buchwald-Hartwig amination [186-189]. The reactions are similar concerning the first step of the catalytic cycle, the oxidative addition of aryl halides to palladium(O) species. This is facilitated by electron-donating substituents and therefore the development of highly active catalysts has focussed on NHC complexes. 

These are called cross-coupling reactions and usually involve three basic steps oxidative addition, transmetallation, and reductive elimination. In the transmetallation step an organic group is transferred from the organometallic reagent to palladium. 

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. 

The low catalytic reactivity of aryl chlorides in cross-coupling reactions is usually attributed to their reluctance towards oxidative addition to Pd(0). For a discussion, see V. V. Grushin and H. Alper, Chem. Rev., 94, 1047-1062 (1994), and reference therein. 

The combination of a Heck and a cross-coupling reaction has not been widely exploited. However, there are some reactions where, following oxidative addition, a... 

As Pd° and Ni° are capable of oxidative addition by C—S bonds, organosulfur compounds can take part in cross-coupling reactions as electrophilic reagents. Due to the formation of stable Pd—S... 

Phosphites P(OR)3 are much weaker ligands for Pd, and are not capable of supporting Pd° species in solution for the reactions where oxidative addition is rate-limiting therefore they are very rarely used in cross-coupling reactions. Phosphite-derived palladacycles, however, are among the most effective precatalysts (Section 9.6.3.4.8). 

Simple Pd salts and complexes which contain neither phosphines nor any other deliberately added ligands are well known to provide catalytic activity in cross-coupling reactions. Such catalytic systems (often referred to as ligand-free catalysts ) often require the use of water as a component of the reaction medium.17 In the majority of cases such systems are applicable to electrophiles easily undergoing the oxidative addition (aryl iodides and activated bromides), although there are examples of effective reactions with unactivated substrates (electron-rich aiyl bromides, and some aryl chlorides).18,470... 

The formation of the C-X bond in hetero-cross coupling reactions is thought to proceed via a migration of the hetero atom to the aryl group, which develops a negative charge, which is Jt-stabilised by mesomeric interaction with acceptor substituents. Both for this reductive elimination and its reverse (oxidative addition) resonance-stabilised Meisenheimer complexes have been proposed [42,49,50,51], This stabilised structure is depicted in Figure 12.18. 

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