Grignard reagents aryl coupling with

Unactivated aryl iodides undergo the conversion Arl — ArCHj when treated with tris(diethylamino)sulfonium difluorotrimethylsilicate and a palladium catalyst.131 A number of methods, all catalyzed by palladium complexes, have been used to prepare unsymmetrical biaryls (see also 3-16). In these methods, aryl bromides or iodides are coupled with aryl Grignard reagents,152 with arylboronic acids ArB(OH)2,153 with aryltin compounds Ar-SnR3,154 and with arylmercury compounds.155 Unsymmetrical binaphthyls were synthesized by photochemically stimulated reaction of naphthyl iodides with naphthoxide ions in an SrnI reaction.156 Grignard reagents also couple with aryl halides without a palladium catalyst, by the benzyne mechanism.157 OS VI, 916 65, 108 66, 67. 

Table 5.7 Iron-catalyzed aryl-aryl coupling with aryl-Grignard reagents developed by Hatakayama and Nakamura.

Aryl Grignard reagents usually give better yields in these reactions than alkyl Grignard reagents. Aryl triflates couple with arylmagnesium halides in the presence... 

In some cases, vinyl halides can be coupled. An aryl Grignard reagent was coupled to a vinyl iodide in the presence of an iron catalyst.Butylmag-nesium chloride was coupled to vinyl triflates with Fe(acac)3. ° The palladium-catalyzed coupling of arylmagnesium halides and vinyl bromides has also been reported. ... 

In the presence of a Pd catalyst, CIPd[P(Cf,Hvinyl iodide couples with mctalatcd aromatics, particularly arylzinc chloride or arylboronic acids. Aryl Grignard reagents, however, couple in very low yield. The resulting C-aryl glucals can be converted to C-aryl glycosides by functionalization of the enol ether double bond.2... 

Similar variants of Ullmann-type reactions based on intra- as well as intermolecular homo-couplings of various arylmetallic reagents, beside aryllithiums, also aryl Grignard reagents, arylzincs etc. with copper(II) salts give intermediate diarylcopper(Il) reagents which subsequently produce respective biaryls, usually in good yields, see Chapter 7. 

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