Aryl halide coupling

In addition to sodium, other metals have found application for the Wurtz coupling reaction, e.g. zinc, iron, copper, lithium, magnesium. The use of ultrasound can have positive effect on reactivity as well as rate and yield of this two-phase reaction aryl halides can then even undergo an aryl-aryl coupling reaction to yield biaryls. ... 

These results were significantly improved by the same authors using the well-defined pre-catalyst 16 (PEPPSl-lPr), that is able to promote the coupling of alkyl halides, aryl halides or alkyl sulphonates with alkylzinc chlorides or bromides [83,84]. 

The synthesis of 1-alkenylboronic acids from l-alkenylmagnesiums or -lithiums suffers from difficulty in retaining the stereochemistry of 1-aikenyl halides, but the palladium-catalyzed coupling reaction of diboron 82 with 1-aikenyl halides or tri-flates directly provides 1-alkenylboronic esters (Scheme 1-43) [157, 158]. Although the reaction conditions applied to the aryl coupling resulted in the formation of an... 

Collum129 reported that while the Stille coupling can proceed without using a phosphine ligand, the addition of a water-soluble ligand improved the yield of the reaction. Water-soluble aryl and vinyl halides were coupled with alkyl-, aryl-, and vinyltrichlorostannane derivatives in this way (Eq. 6.39). 

A more recent publication by Weigand and Pelka has disclosed a polymer-bound Buchwald-Hartwig amination [40], Activated, electron-deficient aryl halides were coupled with conventional PS Rink resin under microwave irradiation. Subsequent acidic cleavage afforded the desired aryl amines in moderate to good yields (Scheme 7.22). Commercially available Fmoc-protected Rink amide resin was suspended in 20% piperidine/N,N-dimethylformamide at room temperature for 30 min to achieve deprotection. After washing and drying, the resin was placed in a silylated microwave vessel and suspended in dimethoxyethane (DME)/tert-butanol... 

Vinyl- [64] and aryl triflates [65] as pseudo organic halides readily couple with stannylpyridines as long as more than one equivalent of LiCl is present in the reaction mixture. Presumably, the transmetalation is facilitated by replacing triflate with Cl at the palladium intermediate generated from oxidative addition. For example, 2-(benzopyran-4-yl)pyridine 80 was obtained from treatment of vinyl triflate 79 with 2-trimethylstannylpyridine in the presence of Pd2(dba)3(CHCl3)-Ph3P and LiCl [64],... 

The Pd(0)-catalyzed electroreductive coupling of aryl halides (303) is a currently relevant topic. In the electroreduction of aryl halides (307) the replacement of the halogen atom by hydrogen predominantly takes place giving (306). Difficulties are encountered, however, when aryl-aryl coupling products (305) via (304) are wanted (Scheme 116). An efficient electroreductive coupling of aryl bromides (307) (X = Br) and iodides (307) (X = I) into biaryls (310) has been shown to occur in a DMF/Et4NOTs/(Pb cathode) system in the presence of Pd(0) and/or Pd(II) catalysts (Scheme 117) [440]. 

Cross coupling between an aryl halide and an activated alkyl halide, catalysed by the nickel system, is achieved by controlling the rate of addition of the alkyl halide to the reaction mixture. When the aryl halide is present in excess, it reacts preferentially with the Ni(o) intermediate whereas the Ni(l) intermediate reacts more rapidly with an activated alkyl halide. Thus continuous slow addition of the alkyl halide to the electrochemical cell already charged with the aryl halide ensures that the alkyl-aryl coupled compound becomes the major product. Activated alkyl halides include benzyl chloride, a-chloroketones, a-chloroesters and amides, a-chloro-nitriles and vinyl chlorides [202, 203, 204], Asymmetric induction during the coupling step occurs with over 90 % distereomeric excess from reactions with amides such as 62, derived from enantiomerically pure (-)-ephedrine, even when 62 is a mixture of diastereoisomcrs prepared from a racemic a-chloroacid. Metiha-nolysis of the amide product affords the chiral ester 63 and chiral ephedrine is recoverable [205]. 

In addition to aryl-aryl coupling, the Stille reaction can be used with alkenylstan-nanes and alkenyl halides and triflates.125 The reactions occur with retention of configuration at both the halide and the stannane. These reactions have become very useful in stereospecific construction of dienes and polyenes, as illustrated by some of the examples in Scheme 8.10. 

Palladium-catalyzed aryl-aryl coupling, 66, 70 PALLADIUM-CATALYZED COUPLING OF ARYL HALIDES, 66, 67 Palladium sponge, 66, 54... 

Allenyl ketones and aryl halides undergo coupling and cyclization in the presence of a palladium-triphenylphosphine catalyst and silver carbonate. The reaction leads to the formation of furane derivatives, the aryl group being introduced into the 3-position (3.72.) 90... 

In a similar way, Guiles and co-workers immobilized an aryl pinacol boronate on resin via an ester linkage, and then a small number of aryl halides were coupled to this (Scheme 31). The products were cleaved and immediately transformed into their methyl esters, presumably for ease of analysis and separation from unreacted boronate. The reaction was found to be slower than that of the opposite polarity (i.e., with the resin-bound iodide), and only moderate yields were obtained after as much as 48 h. Yields could be considerably improved upon a second round of coupling, but only one example was given of this. The aryl bromides were found to react only upon heating. 

Total basicity is measured by standard acid—base titration techniques. The activity divided by the total basicity should be greater than 90%. If it is not, then the Grignard reagent should be checked for unreacted alkyl or aryl halide, homo-coupled product, hydrolysis products, and oxidation products. 

These aryl—aryl couplings are applications of the Ni(O) and Ni(II)-catalyzed cross-couplings of unreactive oiganic halides with Grignard reagents. This work has been extensively reviewed (90). 

A variety of substituted aromatic compounds have been prepared through addition of anionic nucleophiles to arynes generated from readily accessible precursors.1 Most of the laboratory preparations start with aryl halides. The coupling yields are usually good to modest (equations 13-15) but can be poor (equation 16).83 Sometimes, a dramatic improvement in reaction efficiency can be achieved by the change of the base/solvent pair or other reaction conditions. For instance, in arylation of phenoxides and benzenethiolates, a switch over to DMSO as the solvent boosted the yield considerably (equation 17).86 Another example, illustrative of this point, is the reaction of N-methylpyrrolidone with aryl halides where an acceptable yield could not be obtained under a variety of conditions except with LICA in THF (equation 18).71... 

NiCRA-bpyA NiCRA complex containing 2,2 -bipyridine (bpy) effects homocoupling of aryl halides (Ullmann coupling), often in high yield, which can be improved in some cases by addition of KI or Nal. When used in a catalytic amount, reduction to an alkane is the main side reduction. 

In the presence of a Pd(0) catalyst, organozinc halides can couple directly with aryl and vinyl halides to form novel arenes or biaryls. 

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