Cross-coupling with organic

Hydroboration of alkenes or alkynes followed by cross-coupling with organic electrophiles provides a straightforward method for the carbon-carbon bond formation (Scheme 1-19). The hydroboration of thioalkynes with catecholborane in the presence of a nickel or palladium catalyst yields P-(aLkylthio)-l-alkenylboronates (72a)... 

Stannylquinones.1 The quinone synthesis based on addition of alkynyllithiums to substituted cyclobutenediones (13, 209-210, 284) can provide stannylquinones. Thus thermolysis of the alkynylcyclobutenol 1 with Bu3SnOCH3 results in rearrangement to the stannylquinone 2. As expected, these stannylquinones undergo palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling with organic halides (Stille reaction, 14, 35), particularly with allylic halides. 

For the ketone synthesis via the present protocol, acid chlorides are useful precursors, in deed. Nevertheless, carbonylative cross coupling with organic halides is strategically the most simple and direct way to this purpose. The palladium-catalyzed carbonylative cross-coupling reaction with various organic halides has been extensively investigated, because of its merits from synthetic as well as phenomenal point of view. Acid chlorides are not always readily available, and their preparation is not always compatible with many sensitive functionalities. Therefore the development of this type of reaction widens the scope of the ketone synthesis in the present protocol because of the ready availability and storability of organic halides and pseudohalides. 

Arylboronic and alkenylboronic acids undergo transition metal complex-catalyzed synthetic organic reactions such as cross-coupling with organic halides [58-60], 1,4-addition to a,/I-unsaturated ketones [61-63], and ring-opening addition to vinyl oxirane [64]. Scheme 5.8 depicts the mechanism proposed for the... 

More recent studies included the low-temperature phenylytterbium iodide-induced cross-coupling with organic halides in the presence of transition metal catalysts (Yokoo et al., 1984a) and the use of methylytterbium iodide to convert active hydrogen compounds such as phenylacetylene or fluorene to corresponding acids or alcohols (Yokoo et al., 1984b). 

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