Halide substitution reactions

Scheme 43 Nickel-catalyzed halide substitution reactions under microwave irradiation...

Another recent addition to the fluorous biphase toolbox is the discovery of fluorous phase transfer catalysts for halide substitution reactions in aqueous-fluorous systems.This class of reactions is academically intriguing, as an ionic displacement reaction has taken place in one of the least polar solvents known. They make use of fluorous phosphonium salts under biphasic conditions but can also make use of non-fluorous phosphonium salts in a triphasic system. Further information and reactions using such systems will no doubt be reported in the next few years. 

The thermodynamics and kinetics of halide substitution reactions in the complexes [M ClgjX " (M = Mo or W X = Cl, Br, or I) have been measured and interpreted. MO5CI13 has been prepared and from X-ray crystallography the M05... 

Reactions show a dependence on the entering group concentration. For the halide substitution reaction (5.47), the rate = k[PtCl(NH3)3][Br ], which is behaviour consistent with an A mechanism. 

Table 10.6 Summary of the Reactivity of Alkyl Halides Substitution Reactions in Nucleophilic...

Ligand substitution at platinum(iv) generally involves a redox substitution mechanism, as in the recent example of halide substitution reactions of rranj-[Pt(en)2Cl2] + and of rra j-[Pt(en)(LL)X2] +, where LL = NNN N -tetramethylethylenediamine. Conversely, reduction of PtCl4 by phosphine in the presence of iodide ion involves preliminary substitution... 

Some pre-equilibrium association between bromide ion and platinum(iv) complex is invoked to account for the lc2 term. A redox cycle involving plati-num(n) intermediates is thought not to be important in these systems. This point of view contrasts with that expressed by some earlier authors - for instance the redox mechanism proposed for halide-substitution reactions of tmnj-[Pt(en)2Cl2] + and related compounds. ... 

The proton of terminal acetylenes is acidic (pKa= 25), thus they can be deprotonated to give acetylide anions which can undergo substitution reactions with alkyl halides, carbonyls, epoxides, etc. to give other acetylenes. 

The diazonium salts 145 are another source of arylpalladium com-plexes[114]. They are the most reactive source of arylpalladium species and the reaction can be carried out at room temperature. In addition, they can be used for alkene insertion in the absence of a phosphine ligand using Pd2(dba)3 as a catalyst. This reaction consists of the indirect substitution reaction of an aromatic nitro group with an alkene. The use of diazonium salts is more convenient and synthetically useful than the use of aryl halides, because many aryl halides are prepared from diazonium salts. Diazotization of the aniline derivative 146 in aqueous solution and subsequent insertion of acrylate catalyzed by Pd(OAc)2 by the addition of MeOH are carried out as a one-pot reaction, affording the cinnamate 147 in good yield[115]. The A-nitroso-jV-arylacetamide 148 is prepared from acetanilides and used as another precursor of arylpalladium intermediate. It is more reactive than aryl iodides and bromides and reacts with alkenes at 40 °C without addition of a phosphine ligandfl 16]. 

Alkenes are prepared by P elimination of alcohols and alkyl halides These reactions are summarized with examples m Table 5 2 In both cases p elimination proceeds m the direction that yields the more highly substituted double bond (Zaitsev s rule)... 

Nucleophilic substitution reactions of alkyl halides are related to elimination reactions m that the halogen acts as a leaving group on carbon and is lost as an anion The... 

Representative Functional Group Transformations by Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions of Alkyl Halides... 

The reactions of alcohols with hydrogen halides to give alkyl halides (Chapter 4) are nucleophilic substitution reactions of alkyloxonium ions m which water is the leaving group Primary alcohols react by an 8 2 like displacement of water from the alkyloxonium ion by halide Sec ondary and tertiary alcohols give alkyloxonium ions which form carbo cations m an S l like process Rearrangements are possible with secondary alcohols and substitution takes place with predominant but not complete inversion of configuration... 

As m other nucleophilic substitution reactions alkyl p toluenesulfonates may be used m place of alkyl halides... 

Unlike elimination and nucleophilic substitution reactions foimation of oigano lithium compounds does not require that the halogen be bonded to sp hybndized carbon Compounds such as vinyl halides and aiyl halides m which the halogen is bonded to sp hybndized carbon react m the same way as alkyl halides but at somewhat slowei rates... 

Overall the stereospecificity of this method is the same as that observed m per oxy acid oxidation of alkenes Substituents that are cis to each other m the alkene remain CIS m the epoxide This is because formation of the bromohydrm involves anti addition and the ensuing intramolecular nucleophilic substitution reaction takes place with mver Sion of configuration at the carbon that bears the halide leaving group... 

Alkylamines are in principle capable of being prepared by nucleophilic substitution reactions of aUtyl halides with ammonia... 

Noticeably absent from Table 23 3 are nucleophilic substitutions We have so far seen no nucleophilic substitution reactions of aryl halides m this text Chlorobenzene for example is essentially inert to aqueous sodium hydroxide at room temperature Reac tion temperatures over 300°C are required for nucleophilic substitution to proceed at a reasonable rate... 

Sulfonate esters are especially useful substrates in nucleophilic substitution reactions used in synthesis. They have a high level of reactivity, and, unlike alkyl halides, they can be prepared from alcohols by reactions that do not directly involve bonds to the carbon atom imdeigoing substitution. The latter aspect is particularly important in cases in which the stereochemical and structural integrity of the reactant must be maintained. Sulfonate esters are usually prepared by reaction of an alcohol with a sulfonyl halide in the presence of pyridine ... 

Nucleophilic substitution reactions that occur imder conditions of amine diazotization often have significantly different stereochemisby, as compared with that in halide or sulfonate solvolysis. Diazotization generates an alkyl diazonium ion, which rapidly decomposes to a carbocation, molecular nitrogen, and water ... 

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