Palladium catalysis arylative cyclization

The palladium-catalyzed intramolecular C-H arylation of aromatic C-H bonds with haloarenes (Ar-H/Ar-X coupling, where X is halogen) is effective for the synthesis of carbazole alkaloids with amine linkers, as reported by Bedford and coworkers in 2006 (Scheme 16.16a) [34]. Buchwald-Hartwig coupling of an aryl bromide and an aniline derivative generated aryl chloride 91 in situ, which was easily cyclized under palladium catalysis to give clausine P in 80% yield. They also... 

A few synthetic applications of palladium catalysis appeared this year. The palladium-catalyzed cyclization of amino allenes 58 occurs with coupling of aryl iodides or vinyl triflates at the 3-position <990L717, 99SL324>. The cyclization can also proceed by the exo-trig pathway, but under suitable reaction conditions the piperidine 59 is prepared selectively. The intramolecular cyclization of amines onto N-allylbenzotriazoles similarly affords piperidines <99JOC6066>. 

The cyclization of alleneamines under palladium catalysis proceeds with coupling at the 3-position with aryl iodides and vinyl triflates <19990L717, 1999SL324>. The cyclization can also proceed by the 4-a o-/ttg-pathway, and, under suitable conditions, piperidines are produced exclusively (Equation 28). 

Hi. Carbon-silicon bonds. Following the earlier reports mentioning the palladium-catalysed addition of organosilylstannanes to alkynes or isonitriles , Mori and coworkers realized tandem transmetallation-cyclization reactions with bifunctional halogeno triflates and Bu3SnSiMe3 18. The reactivity of 18 under palladium catalysis was used for the silylstannylation of alkenes or the synthesis of allylic silanes via a three-component (aryl iodide - - diene - - 18) coupling reaction. Recently, a similar... 

Aryl-, alkenyl- and alkynylpalladium species readily undergo carbonylation reactions because carbon monoxide as a loosely bonded ligand can reversibly insert into any palladium-carbon bond [110]. Thus, 2-allyl-l-iodocyclopentene (148), under palladium catalysis, reacts with carbon monoxide in two modes, depending on the excess of carbon monoxide and the catalyst cocktail (Scheme 3-39) [110a]. With a slight excess (1.1 atm of CO) in the presence of [Pd(PPh3)4] in tetrahydrofuran, 148 cyclized with one CO insertion to yield 3-methylenebicyclo[3.3.0]oct-l(5)-en-2-one (152), and under 40 atm of CO with [Pd(PPh ,)2Cl2] in benzene/acetonitrile/methanol, methyl 2- 3 -(2 -oxobicyclo[3.3.0]oct-1 (5 )-enyl) acetate 149 after two CO insertions (Scheme 3-39). 

Aryl iodides are more reactive towards oxidative addition than aryl bromides, and a selective Heck coupling (without phosphine ligands) with an unsaturated side chain left the bromide in place. A second Heck reaction of this bromide with an allylic alcohol was used to introduce a second side chain. Cyclization of the amide on to the allylic alcohol was achieved with palladium catalysis, not as might have been expected with palladium(O) but instead with palladium(ll), to produce the seven-membered ring. Finally, the conjugated double bond was reduced and the sulfonamide removed under photolytic conditions. 

With the development of Buchwald-Hartwig amination reactions, the amine component of these indoles can also be introduced into these precursors via palladium catalysis [8]. As shown by Ackermann, this can be coupled with aryl halide alkynylation and cyclization to provide a one-pot, three-component synthesis of substituted indoles (Scheme 6.6) [9]. In this case, simple ortho-dihaloarene derivatives S were employed as starting materials, with Sonogashira coupling occurring at the more activated aryl-iodide bond, followed by selective coupling of various alkyl or arylamines. Alternatively, Zhao has recently demonstrated that amination can be performed on both bromoalkyne 6, followed by the aryl-bromide bond, to provide a route to 2-amidoindoles (Scheme 6.7) [10]. 

While furans have been the main focus of palladium-catalyzed allene cycloisomerization, pyrroles can also be generated via reaction of allenyl-substituted amines. A number of metal catalysts have been reported to mediate the cyclization of these substrates to pyrrolines, however, the use of palladium catalysis can allow the concomitant incorporation of aryl functionality into the 3-position, as shown in Scheme 6.27. At elevated temperatures, oxidation of the pyrroline occurs to afford pyrroles [37]. 

In addition to simply mediating the formation of carbon-nitrogen bonds, palladium catalysis can be used to construct these precursors in concert with cyclization. One example of this was demonstrated by Barluenga, where palladium catalysis is employed to form two separate bonds first the carbon-carbon bond via the arylation of the azaallylic anion of imine 19, followed by catalytic carbon-nitrogen bond formation (Scheme 6.38) [50]. 

Under palladium(n) catalysis 2-alkynylbenzyl alcohols 136 can cyclize by either a 5-exo-dig process to form (Z)-l-alkylidene-l,3-dihydrobenzofurans 138 or a 6-endo-digprocess to afford 177-isochromenes 137 (Equation 66). Lower solvent polarity and alkyl, rather than aryl substitution of the alkyne favour a 6-endo-dig cyclization (Table 3) <2003T6251>. 

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