Halides SrnI reactions

Furthermore, Saveant et al. have shown elegant examples of electrochemi-cally induced nucleophilic substitution of perfluoroalkyl halides. The reaction mechanism is a slightly modified version of the classical SRNI mechanism in... 

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. 

The report by Bunnett and coworkers107 of substitution of halide by MeCOCth" or PhS- ions in vinyl bromides or iodides appears to be the only synthetic application of the SrnI reaction at vinylic sites. The reactions, particularly with benzenethiolate ion, are slower than those of aryl halides and the yields are not as good. Tautomers or mixtures of products result in the reactions with MeCOCH2 (e.g. equation 32). 

The SrnI reactions are grouped according to the attacking element in the nucleophilic species, i.e. according to the new aryl-element bond being formed. These reactions are convenient one-step substitution reactions leading from aryl halides (or arenes with appropriate nucleofuges) to a variety of classes of aromatic compounds. 

Dimsyl anion fails to undergo SrnI reactions with aryl halides,134,143 and the occurrence of fragmentation processes similar to those in equations (11) and (45) have been used to explain this failure,143 correcting the earlier, falacious claim that dimsyl anion and halobenzenes react to give benzyl methyl sulfoxide in high yield.144... 

Acetylide ions have also been reported as unreactive in SrnI reactions with aryl45 and heteroaryl134 halides. 

SrnI reactions with aryl halides were also observed. Their general mechanism is presented in Scheme 194b and illustrated in the subsection on SET reactions. 

Nitro-substituted phenyl halides produce radical anions that fragment with a rather low rate (=10 2-102/s) [28]. For this reason the nitro group is not a suitable substituent for most aromatic SrnI reactions. However, exceptions are found with o-iodonitrobenzene [29] whose radical anion has a relatively high rate of fragmentation, and nitroaryldiazo phenyl or tert-butyl sulfides [30]. 

The enolate ions of ketones have become the most widely studied nucleophiles in SrnI reactions [21-23,40,66]. The enolate ions of acyclic and cyclic ketones (from cyclobutanone to cyclooctanone) [21,40] react with aryl and heteroaryl halides to afford the a-arylation products. No... 

The factors affecting the relative reactivity of aryl halides in SrnI reactions have been analysed and compared645. Competition experiments of pairs of substrates, in photo-stimulated reactions with pinacolone enolate ion in liquid ammonia, reveal a spread of reactivity exceeding three powers of ten. The ease of formation of the radical anion of the substrate appears to dominate the overall reactivity. The rate of dehalogenation of the radical anion may become important when its stability exceeds a certain threshold. When the fragmentation rate of the radical anion intermediate is fairly slow, the overall reactivity diminishes. 

The pyrrolyl-pyridine and -quinoline precursors 1225 have been prepared via an electroinduced SrnI reaction in liquid ammonia by reacting pyrrolyl anions 1223 and the corresponding aryl halides 1224 (pyridyl and quinolyl chlorides) (Scheme 235) <2004S0517>. 

Metallic stannides can react with aryl halides,9 11 or phenols via the aryl dialkyl phosphates,12 13 or aryl ammonium salts,14 in a photostimulated SrnI reaction, for example ... 

There is good evidence that some nucleophilic substitution reactions do involve a single electron transfer, but the best established use a slightly different mechanism. These are the SrnI reactions, with the subscript RN standing for radical nucleophilic. Examples are the reaction of the nitronate anion 4.14 with p-nitrobenzyl chloride 4.15, 251 and the reaction of the pinacolone enolate 4.16 with bromobenzene.252 The former might have been a straightforward SN2 reaction, but actually takes the S l pathway because the nitro groups make the electron transfer exceptionally easy. The latter cannot take place by a conventional Sn2 reaction, because aryl (and vinyl) halides are not susceptible to direct displacement, and the S l pathway overcomes this difficulty. 

EtO)2P and Ph2P are good nucleophiles in aromatic SrnI reactions and react with aryl halides to yield the substitution products with acceptable to excellent yields. Moreover, Ar-1 reacts efficiently with PhS", substituted thiophenolates and... 

In the field of (hetero)aromatic photochemistry substitution reactions are also quite useful. The two most useful classes are the SrnI reaction [16] and SnI reaction [17], involving respectively the aromatic radical anion and the aryl cation as the key intermediates. In the former case, (generally photoinduced) electron transfer generates the radical anion of an aryl halide. With less strongly bonded derivatives (usually iodides) the intermediate cleaves to an aryl radical that gives the new product via a chain process (see Scheme 2.6). 

A review on both mechanistic and synthetic aspects of the photo-induced electron-transfer (PET) reactions of amines has been published. A symposium was held on, primarily, the photo-induced SrnI reactions of bridgehead halides. ... 

To the more usual homolytic fragmentation of aryl halides (from the excited state or from the radical anion, the well known SrnI reaction, for a recent example see the arylation of aromatics), the heterolytic version of the reaction which produces phenyl cations has more recently joined. A theroretic study on the photodissociation of fluorinated iodobenzenes has been published. The perfluoroallgrlation of various alkenes has been obtained by irradiation in the presence of iodoperfluorobutane. The formation of phenyl cations is exemplified in many arylation reactions and, in the case of o-chlorostannane, also a benzyne has been reported. In the field of polymer chemistry, iodonium salts are model cationic photoinitiators. In particular the truxene-acridine/diphenyl iodonium salt/9-vinylcarbazole combination is able to promote the ringopening polymerization of an epoxide, whereas the truxene AD/allq l halide/amine system is very efficient in initiating the radical photopolymerization of an acrylate. ... 

A second general reaction that proceeds by an SrnI mechanistic pattern involves aryl halides. Aryl halides undergo substitution by eertain nueleophiles by a ehain mechanism of the SrnI class.Many of the reactions are initiated photochemically, and most have been conducted in liquid ammonia solution. 

The reactivities of the substrate and the nucleophilic reagent change vyhen fluorine atoms are introduced into their structures This perturbation becomes more impor tant when the number of atoms of this element increases A striking example is the reactivity of alkyl halides S l and mechanisms operate when few fluorine atoms are incorporated in the aliphatic chain, but perfluoroalkyl halides are usually resistant to these classical processes However, formal substitution at carbon can arise from other mecharasms For example nucleophilic attack at chlorine, bromine, or iodine (halogenophilic reaction, occurring either by a direct electron-pair transfer or by two successive one-electron transfers) gives carbanions These intermediates can then decompose to carbenes or olefins, which react further (see equations 15 and 47) Single-electron transfer (SET) from the nucleophile to the halide can produce intermediate radicals that react by an SrnI process (see equation 57) When these chain mechanisms can occur, they allow reactions that were previously unknown Perfluoroalkylation, which used to be very rare, can now be accomplished by new methods (see for example equations 48-56, 65-70, 79, 107-108, 110, 113-135, 138-141, and 145-146)... 

Vinylic halides can react by a SrnI mechanism (p. 855) in some cases. An example is the FeCl2 catalyzed reaction of l-bromo-2-phenylethene and the enolate anion of pinacolone (t-BuCOCH2 ), which gave a low yield of substitution products along with alkynes. ... 

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