Hartwig ligand

The first examples utilising A-heterocyclic carbenes as ligands in the Buchwald-Hartwig amination involved the in situ formation of the catalyst from the corresponding imidazolium salt and a Pd(0) source. Nolan reported IPr-HCl/PdjCdbalj as a catalytic system for the amination of aryl chlorides in excellent yields, using different types of amines, anilines, and also imines or indoles [142,143] (Scheme 6.46). Hartwig showed later that in some cases the reactions could be performed at room temperature and without anhydrous conditions even for aryl chlorides [ 144]. This was later shown for the less challenging bromides and iodides [145,146]. 

Independent investigations by Maes and coworkers have involved the use of commercially available and air-stable 2-(dicydohexylphosphanyl)biphenyl (ligand B) as a ligand system for the successful and rapid coupling of (hetero)aryl chlorides with amines under microwave Buchwald-Hartwig conditions (0.5-2 mol% palladium catalyst) [129, 130]. Both methods provide very high yields of products within an irradiation time of 10 min. 

One of the most active and well-studied catalytic borylation systems is that generated from iridium(l) precursors such as [lr(COD)Cl]2 or [lr(COD)(OMe)]2 and bipyridine type ligands such as 2,2 -bipyridine or 4,4 -di-ferf-butyl-2,2 -bipyridine (dtbpy). In 2002, Ishiyama, Miyaura, and Hartwig et al. reported that the combination of [lr(COD)Cl]2 and 2,2 -bipyridine catalyzes arene borylation in the presence of excess arene under mild conditions (80°C). When the catalyst is generated from [lr(COE)2Cl]2 and dtbpy, the reaction proceeds even at room temperature [78, 79]. The same groups optimized conditions and found that the combination of [Ir(COD) (OMe)]2 and dtbpy (10) is a highly effective catalyst in the borylation of arenes so that reactions can be successfully performed with equimolar ratio of arenes and... 

The configuration of the chiral BlNOLate backbone of the phosphoramidite ligand affects the rates and enantioselectivities of allylic substitution reactions. Hartwig and coworkers found that allylic substitution conducted with a catalyst derived from the simplified ligand (5a,/ )-L4 occurred more slowly than that conducted with a catalyst derived from (/ a,/ )-L4 [74]. Complexes of the mismatched (5a,/ )-L4 undergo cyclometalation slowly. The products formed from reactions catalyzed by complexes of (5a,/ )-L4 and (/ a,/ )-L4 have the opposite absolute configuration. 

In contrast, reactions catalyzed by la were typically conducted with added [Ir (C0D)C1]2 to trap the K -phosphoramidite ligand after dissociation, and thereby, to leave the unsaturated active catalyst. Under these conductions, as much as half of the iridium in the system is present in an inactive acyclic species. In contrast, when ethylene adduct lb is used as the catalyst, all of the iridium belongs to the active metalacyclic species. Hartwig and coworkers have recently taken advantage of the increased availability of the active catalyst generated from lb to develop new allylic substitution reactions. These new processes include the reactions of carbamates, nitrogen heterocycles, and ammonia. 

The mechanism of reversible (5-hydrogen elimination from square planar lr(l) alkoxide complexes with labile dative ligands, followed by associahve displacement of the coordinated ketone or aldehyde by incoming phosphine, which can be implied in TH reactions, was proposed by Hartwig and coworkers [36]. 

The beneficial effects of chelating ligands were also demonstrated by Hartwig, Ishiyama and Miyaura [62]. This group isolated the iridium(I) complex [lr(Bpin)3(COE)(DTBPY) modified with simple 2,2 -bipyridine ligands (such as 4,4 -di-tert-butyl-2,2 -bipyridine DTBPY), which seemed to be responsible for the first catalytic C—H borylation at room temperature (Scheme 7.30). An extension... 

In terms of A -substitution, Hartwig reported improved conditions for the Pd(0) catalyzed N-arylation of indoles and pyrrole <99JOC5575>. It was found that when commercially available P(<-Bu)3 was employed as ligand and cesium carbonate as base, the reaction between indoles 95 and unhindered aryl bromides 96 or chlorides occurred under milder conditions than the Pd(OAc)2/DPPF system previously reported yielding the A/-arylated products 97. Alternatively, it has been found that pyrrole- and indole-2-carboxylic acid esters can be selectively 7V-arylated with phenylboronic acids in the presence of cupric acetate and either tiiethylamine or pyridine <99T12757>. 

The final step of the process is the detachment of the product from the metal in reductive elimination. Unlike in most cross-coupling reactions, this step was the limiting factor in the early reports on the Buchwald-Hartwig reaction. The use of sterically demanding mono and bidentate ligands, however helped to overcome this difficulty by facilitating the closing step. 

Hartwig has reported the asymmetric intramolecular arylation of amides using a chiral carbene ligand (5) with up to 76% ee [43]. 

Beare, N. A. Hartwig, J. F. Palladium-catalyzed arylation of malonates and cyanoesters using sterically hindered trialkyl- and ferro-cenyldialkylphosphine ligands. J. Org. Chem. 2002, 67, 541-555. 

Transition-metal-catalyzed synthesis of poly(arylene)s via carbon-carbon coupling reactions was started by Yamamoto et al. three decades ago [52,53] since then various carbon-carbon bond formation processes with transition-metal catalysts have been applied to polycondensation [54-57]. In recent years, Buchwald et al. and Hartwig et al. developed Pd-catalyzed amination and etherification of aromatic halides by using bulky, electron-rich phosphine ligands [58-60], and this chemistry has been applied to polycondensation for... 

Hartwig [9] et al. developed a novel ferrocene-based dialkyl-phosphine-ligand for this arylation 2-methoxy-4-methyl-phenol is arylated with 2-chloro-p-xylene in 81% yield [eq. (g)]. 

Several new catalysts have been introduced during the past two years especially noteworthy are nucleophilic carbene-ligand based catalysts developed [13] by Herrmann s group among others. A saturated variant has been established by Hartwig et al. Related work with donor-substituted carbenes has been published [15] by McGuiness and Cavell. Several detailed mechanistic papers have been published by Hartwig [16] et al. 

Almost simultaneously, several groups developed efficient procedures for Heck reactions of deactivated chloroarenes 22 involving sterically crowded monodentate phosphines as activating ligand on the palladium (Scheme 11) [31]. Littke and Fu employed commercially available P(t-Bu)3, Hartwig P(t-Bu)3 or bis-t-butyl-ferroce-nylphosphine, and Beller di(l-adamantyl)-n-butylphosphine. The use of biscyclo-hexylmethylamine as the base instead of alkali metal carbonates or phosphates significantly extends the scope of the Fu procedure in respect of the olefin partner. 

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