Furans arylation

Lee and Ghosh addressed this problem when they demonstrated that the highly electron-rich palladium complex 33 could be used to accomplish furan arylation with unreactive and sterically congested aryl chlorides (Scheme 10.10). This method allowed for the synthesis of 2,5-substituted furans 34A-C that had been previously difficult to access using other methods. This arylation is thought to proceed via a CMD pathway. 

SCHEME 10.10 Lee s furan arylation with unactivated, hindered aryl chlorides. 

Direct Arylation. In the absence of any substituent, thiophene or furan arylation takes place at the adjacent C-2 or C-5 position, but a mixture of mono- and diary lation may be obtained. Blocking one of the sulfur-adjacent positions is a strategy adopted by many. When both C-2 and C-5 positions are blocked, then direct functionalization can occur at the C-3 or C-4 position, and the nature of the substituents can dictate the position of arylation. An interesting example of thiophene direct arylation is its coupling with hindered boronic acids (eq 159). The palladium-catalyzed reaction tolerates ortto-substituted boronic acids. Key for the reaction is the employment of the BOX ligand (L) and TEA as an additive. 

Superorders Oxydiaryl- butanes Dibenzyl- butanes Dibenzyl- butyro- lactones Dibenzyl- furans Aryl- naphthalenes 2.7 - Cyclolignan- 9 -olides Aryltetra- hydro- naphthalenes Dlbenzyl- cyclo- octadienes... 

Pd(II) salts promote the carbonylation of organomercury compounds. Reaction of phenylmercury chloride and PdCh under CO pressure affords benzophenone (429)[387]. Both esters and ketones are obtained by the carbonylation of furylmercury(Il) chloride in alcohol[388]. Although the yields are not satisfactory, esters are obtained by the carbonylation of aryl- and alkylmercuryfll) chlorides[389,390]. One-pot catalytic carbonylation of thiophene, furan, and pyrrole (430) takes place at the 2-position via mercuration and transmetallation by the use of PdCb, Hg(N03), and CuCl2[391]. 

The formation of disubstituted alkynes by coupling of terminal alkynes, followed by intramolecular attack of an alcohol or amine, is used for the preparation of benzofurans and indoles. The benzo[il)]furan 356 can be prepared easily by the reaction of o-iodophenol with a terminal alkyne[262]. The 2-substituted indole 358 is prepared by the coupling of 2-ethynylaniline (357) with aryl and alkenyl halides or triflates, followed by Pd(ll)-catalyzed cycliza-tion[263]. 

The cross-coupling of aromatic and heteroaromatic rings has been carried out extensively[555]. Tin compounds of heterocycles such as oxazo-lines[556,557], thiophene[558,559], furans[558], pyridines[558], and seleno-phenes [560] can be coupled with aryl halides. The syntheses of the phenylo.xazoline 691[552], dithiophenopyridine 692[56l] and 3-(2-pyridyl)qui-noline 693[562] are typical examples. 

Mercapto derivatives of furan, thiophene, selenophene (77ACS(B)198) and pyrrole (72AJC985) all exist predominantly in the thiol form. 2-Mercaptobenzothiophene is also a thiol (70JCS(C)243i) whereas 2-mercaptoindole is mainly indoline-2-thione (89) (69CPB550). The finely balanced nature of this system is indicated by the fact that a 3-aryl, but not a 3-alkyl, substituent will stabilize the 2-thiol form, whereas for 3-aryl-fV-methyl derivatives the 2-thione tautomer is preferred (71CC836). 

There are examples of preferential arylation of Af-substituted pyrroles, thiophenes and furans in the 2-position. A preparatively useful reaction of this type is the o-nitrophenylation of thiophene (Scheme 40). A phase transfer catalytic technique has been recommended for this reaction (77TL1871). 

There are reports of an increasing number of palladium-assisted reactions, in some of which the palladium has a catalytic function. Thus furan and thiophene undergo facile palladium-assisted alkenylation giving 2-substituted products. Benzo[6 Jfuran and TV- acetyl-indole yield cyclization products, dibenzofurans and carbazoles respectively, in addition to alkenylated products (8UOC851). The arylation of pyrroles can be effected by treatment with palladium acetate and an arene (Scheme 86) (81CC254). 

Benzo[b]furan, 3-(anilinoethyl)-4,5,6,7-tetrahydro-synthesis, 4, 671 Benzo[b]furan, 2-aryl-synthesis, 4, 697, 710 Benzo[b]furan, 3-aryl-synthesis, 4, 710... 

Benzo[b]furan, 2-aryl-2,3-dihydro- H NMR, 4, 570 Benzo[b]furan, 2-bromo-nitration, 4, 604 Benzo[b]furan, 5-cinnamoyl-properties, 4, 708 Benzo[b]furan, 2-cyano-photochemical reactions, 4, 636 Benzo[b]furan, 2,3-dialkyl-synthesis, 4, 710 Benzo[b]furan, 2,3-dihydro-aromaticity... 

Furan, 2-alkenyl-3-hydroxytetrahydro-synthesis, 4, 677 Furan, alkyl-reactions, 4, 644 synthesis, 4, 710 Furan, 2-alkyl-mass spectra, 4, 21-22 synthesis, 4, 666 Furan, 3-alkyl-mass spectra, 4, 21-22 synthesis, 4, 665, 710 Furan, 5-alkyl-2-phenylthio-reactions, 4, 80 Furan, 2-alkyltetrahydro-synthesis, 4, 675, 711 Furan, 3-amido-synthesis, 4, 665 Furan, 2-amino-synthesis, 4, 74, 121, 661 tautomerism, 4, 38 Furan, 3-amino-tautomerism, 4, 38 Furan, 2-amino-3-cyano-synthesis, 4, 661, 689, 712 Furan, 3-amino-2-methyl-reaction, 4, 74 Furan, 2-aryl-reactions... 

A multitude of 1,4-dicarbonyls (1) undergo the Paal-Knorr reaction with and ranging from H to alkyl, aryl, carbonyl, nitrile, and phosphonate, while R and R vary between H, alkyl, aryl, trialkylsilyl, and O-alkyl. Protic acid catalysts are typically used with sulfuric, hydrochloric, and p-toluenesulfonic acids the most popular. Conversion to the furan takes place either at room temperature or upon heating with reaction times varying from five minutes to 24 hours and yields ranging from 17-100%. 

A multitude of 2,3,5-trisubstituted furans are available via the Paal-Knorr condensation. As with the synthesis of disubstituted furans, the scope of this version of the reaction is broad and includes incorporation of aryl, alkyl, ester, and phosphonate substituents. 

The arylation of furan by the Gomberg reaction has been carried out using a number of differently substituted diazonium salts. In... 

Reduction of 3,5,5-tris-aryl-2(5// )-furanones 115 (R, R, R = aryl) with dimethyl sulfide-borane led to the formation of the 2,5-dihydrofurans 116 in high yields. However, in the case of 3,4-diaryl-2(5//)-furanones 115 (R, R = aryl R = H or r = H R, R = aryl), the reduction led to a complicated mixture of products of which only the diarylfurans 117 could be characterized (Scheme 36) (88S68). It was concluded that the smooth conversion of the tris-aryl-2(5//)-furanones to the corresponding furan derivatives with the dimethylsulfide-borane complex in high yields could be due to the presence of bulky aryl substituents which prevent addition reaction across the double bond (88S68). 

It should be pointed out that not all benzoin derivatives (75) are suitable for use as photoinitialors. Benzoin esters (75, R=aeyl) undergo a side reaction leading to furan derivatives. Aryl ethers (75, R=aryl) undergo (3-seission to give a phenoxy radical (an inhibitor) in competition with a-scission (Scheme 3.54). Benzoin derivatives with a-hydrogens (75 R-Il) are readily autoxidized and consequently can have poor shelf lives. 

The last method for the preparation of 2-quinolones described in this chapter relies on a intramolecular Heck cyclization starting from heteroaryl-amides (Table 2) [57]. These are synthesized either from commercially available pyrrole- and thiophene-2-carboxylic acids (a, Table 2) or thiophene-and furan-3-carboxylic acids (b, Table 2) in three steps. The Heck cyclization is conventionally performed with W,Ar-dimethylacetamide (DMA) as solvent, KOAc as base and Pd(PPh3)4 as catalyst for 24 h at 120 °C resulting in the coupled products in 56-89% yields. As discussed in Sect. 3.4, transition metal-catalyzed reactions often benefit from microwave irradiation [58-61], and so is the case also for this intramolecular reaction. In fact, derivatives with an aryl iodide were successfully coupled by conventional methods, whereas the heteroarylbromides 18 and 19, shown in Table 2, could only be coupled in satisfying yields by using MAOS (Table 2). 

Synthesis of 2-alkyl- or 2-aryl-substituted benzo[b]furans has been reported, involving a CuITMEDA complex which catalyzes the transformation of readily available ketone derivatives into the corresponding benzofurans in good-to-excellent yields in water (Eq. 6.13).29... 

Balme and coworkers reported on a procedure for the preparation of highly functionalized furans of type 2-940 (Scheme 2.210) [480]. Their approach is based on a nucleophilic Michael addition of propargyl alcohols 2-937 to alkylidene or aryl-idenemalonates 2-938, followed by a palladium-catalyzed cydization via the carban-ion 2-939. The reactions with propargyl alcohol led to the formation of only one di-... 

The approach also allows the synthesis of furans by employing ethoxymethylene malonate, followed by an eliminative decarboxylation. This method was used by Balme for a formal synthesis of the antitumor lignan burseran (6/1-294), starting from 6/1-290,6/1-291 and 6/1-292 via the furan 6/1-293 (Scheme 6/1.78) [139], Furans as 6/1-298 can also be obtained by Pd-catalyzed reaction of 2-propynyl-l,3-dicarbonyls 6/1-295 with aryl halides 6/1-296 in DMF, using potassium carbonate as base, as shown by Arcadi, Cacchi and coworkers (Scheme 6/1.79) [140]. 

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