Halogenation Metal-halogen exchange Quinoline

Halogen exchange with metallic derivatives provides a powerful means of introducing iodine into specific quinoline sites. It has proved possible to prepare 2-, 3-, and 4-iodoquinolines from the trimethylstannyl [82H(19)168] or lithium derivatives [86S670]. Protected 2-aminoquinoline, lithiated at C-3, was quenched with iodine to give a 90% yield of the 3-iodo derivative (86S670). 

Direct deprotonation of quinolines or isoquinolines can only be succeeded via directed ort/io-metalation. Metal-halogen exchange can be used to produce organometallic nucleophiles from the halides located either on the benzene or the pyridine ring. ... 

Dialkylquinolinyl boranes 83 and 86 were prepared from halogen/metal exchange of 3-bromoquinoline (70) with n-BuLi followed by quenching with Et2BOMe and Br-9-BBN, respectively. They are then coupled with bromides 84 and 87 to give 3-substituted quinoline derivatives 85 and 88, respectively (85H2375). 

Halogen-metal exchange reactions in the carbocyclic rings of quinolines have also successfully been achieved, and all four possible types of lithio... 

On the other hand, quinolinyl nucleophiles as the quinolinylzinc derivatives presented in the following example have been prepared by the in situ transmetallation of quinolinyllithium salts realized by direct halogen-metal exchange of 6-bromo quinoline derivative. The zinc salt was allowed to react with several aryl bromides, affording clean Negishi reactions for the formation of 6-substituted derivatives, which are potent inhibitors of steroid 5a reductases of types 1 and 2 ... 

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