Heck amination reaction

Scheme 5 Sequential Heck-amination reaction on solid support [64]...

Carbon-carbon bond formation reactions and the CH activation of methane are another example where NHC complexes have been used successfully in catalytic applications. Palladium-catalysed reactions include Heck-type reactions, especially the Mizoroki-Heck reaction itself [171-175], and various cross-coupling reactions [176-182]. They have also been found useful for related reactions like the Sonogashira coupling [183-185] or the Buchwald-Hartwig amination [186-189]. The reactions are similar concerning the first step of the catalytic cycle, the oxidative addition of aryl halides to palladium(O) species. This is facilitated by electron-donating substituents and therefore the development of highly active catalysts has focussed on NHC complexes. 

Phosphine ligands based on the ferrocene backbone are very efficient in many palladium-catalyzed reactions, e.g., cross-coupling reactions,248 Heck reaction,249 amination reaction,250 and enantioselective synthesis.251 A particularly interesting example of an unusual coordination mode of the l,l -bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene (dppf) ligand has been reported. Dicationic palladium(II) complexes, such as [(dppf)Pd(PPh3)]2+[BF4 ]2, were shown to contain a palladium-iron bond.252,253 Palladium-iron bonds occur also in monocationic methyl and acylpalladium(II) complexes.254 A palladium-iron interaction is favored by bulky alkyl substituents on phosphorus and a lower electron density at palladium. 

Intramolecular aminopalladation has been applied to the total synthesis of the complex skeleton of bukittinggine (179). For this reaction. Pd(CF3CO )2 (10 mol%) and benzoquinone (1.1 equiv.) are used. It is important to use freshly recrystallized benzoquinone for successful cyclization. Formation of a 7r-allylpalladium species as an intermediate in this amination reaction has been suggested 182]. The amino group in obromoaniline reacts first with acrylate in the presence of PdCF to give 180, and then intramolecular Heck reaction of the resulting alkene 180 with Pd(0) catalyst affords indolecarboxylate 181[183]. 

The Heck-type reaction of vinylic bromides with alkenes in the presence of nucleophiles such as stabilized enolates or secondary amines (morpholine or piperidine) are efficient three-component reactions that were developed in the late 1970s... 

Cross-coupling reactions with vinylboronic acids can yield either the normal product (ipso-substitution of boron) or a regioisomer formed via a Heck-type reaction (cine-substitution Scheme 8.17) [135]. Formation of the normal product (1-phenylhexene in Scheme 8.17) requires a base capable of binding to the boronic acid, thereby increasing the nucleophilicity of the boron-bound carbon atom (typically ROM, MOH, M2C03, M3P04, where M= alkali metal [136]). Products of cine-substitution result when tertiary amines are used as bases, i.e. under Heck-type reaction conditions. 

Aliphatic amines can be readily oxidized by Pd(II) to imines or iminium salts and hydrido complexes. The latter can transfer hydrogen to alkenes, leading to the formation of alkanes as byproducts of the Heck reaction (last example, Scheme 8.18). Such reactions can be avoided by using alkali carbonates as base instead of aliphatic amines [148]. Treatment of stannanes or organoboron derivatives with electron-deficient alkenes under acidic reaction conditions can also lead to formal products of Michael addition instead of the products of a Heck-type reaction [149, 150] (Scheme8.19). 

With a combination of organic halide, alkene or alkyne, and palladium catalyst, the reaction may take a superficially similar, but different pathway other than a Heck-type reaction. In these, the halogen is retained in the products, as an alkyl or vinyl halide. These results occur when the starting organic halide is allyl, a- to a carbonyl or similar group, or attached to a perhalogenated carbon atom. In much of the early work, mixtures with Hecklike elimination products were obtained, due to elimination caused by the presence of amine bases in the reaction mixture (equation 165)323. 

The use of aryl triflates or other sulfonates in the amine arylation reaction is highly desirable from a synthetic standpoint since a large variety of phenols are easily accessed and derivatized. Aryl and vinyl triflates have enjoyed great utility in other Pd-catalyzed transformations such as the Stille [77] and Suzuki [78] couplings, and the Heck [79] reaction. 

As an alternative to the classical reaction mechanism, they investigated the possibility of a direct deprotonation of the y5-agostic insertion product by the amine base, which is usually required for successful Heck coupling reactions. The new proposal actually replaces the last two steps of the classical catalytic cycle, P-Vi elimination and base-assisted reductive elimination of HX (Scheme 2). 

Microchip-assisted generation of addressable libraries was presented by Tesfu, Moeller, and coworkers.32-35 Two of the introduced reactions are highlighted in Fig. 14.5. The Heck reaction using a Pd(0) reagent was realized as explained in Fig. 14.5a.33 A chip-based amination reaction to couple fluorescent dyes (red and green) is schematically depicted in Fig. 14.5b.34... 

Fig. 14.5 Generation of addressable libraries on chips (a) Scheme of Heck reaction under employment of an transition metal catalyst (Reprinted with permission from Tian et al.33 Copyright (2005) American Chemical Society) (b) Scheme of reductive amination reactions (Reprinted with permission from Tesfu et al.34 Copyright (2006) American Chemical Society)...

The pioneering studies in this area were reported in 1999 by Narasaka, who demonstrated intramolecular heteroatom Heck-type reactions of 0-pentafluorobenzoyl oximes [97]. As shown below, treatment of unsaturated substrate 97 with a catalytic amount of Pd(PPh,y in the presence of triethyl amine provided pyrrole 98 upon workup with chlorotrimethylsilane. The mechanism of this reaction proceeds via oxidative addition of the N—O bond to afford 99, which undergoes alkene insertion into the Pd—N bond to provide alkyl-palladium complex 100. The exo-methylene product 101 is generated by [i-hydride elimination from 100, and isomerization to the desired pyrrole 98 occurs when chlorotrimethylsilane is added. 

Following our first report on the palladium-catalyzed reaction of vinyl triflates with olefins (Heck-type reaction), oxidative insertion of palladium(O) into the carbon-oxygen bond of easily available vinyl triflates has proved to be a general method for the generation of o-vinyl palladium intermediates which can react directly with a variety of olefinic systems, carbon monoxide and alcohols or amines,or 1-alkynes, to give conjugated... 

For insoluble development in Heck-type reactions is P-C and N-C bond formation, which results from coupling of aryl halides with phosphorous compounds [38] and amines [39]. The first application in aqueous medium was achieved by coupling of a dialkyl phosphite with an aromatic iodide to give an arylphosphonate in 99% yield. In 1996, Stelzer and co-workers presented a P-C cross-coupling reaction between primary and secondary phosphines and functional aryl iodides to water-soluble phosphines [Eq. (9)], which are potentially applicable as ligands in aqueous-phase catalysis [40]. 

An easy recycling method involving both catalyst and reaction medium was achieved in a Mizoroki-Heck arylation reaction of acrylic acid, using a fluorous carbene complex (prepared in situ fl om a fluorous ionic liquid and palladium acetate) as the catalyst and a fluorous ether solvent (F-626) as the reaction medium. Because of the very low solubility of arylated carboxylic acids in F-626, the products precipitated during the course of the reaction. After separation of the products and amine salts by filtration, the filtrate, which contained the fluorous Pd catalyst, could be recycled for several runs (Scheme 13). The Mizoroki-Heck reaction was effectively promoted by a fluorous SCS pincer palladium, which is discussed in Section 3.4.5. 

Hartwig and co-workers once again exploited the high-throughput approach and FRET screening to uncover new palladium catalysts for the arylation of a-cyanoacetates. The approach was very similar to those described for the aryl amination and Heck coupling reactions previously described (refer to Sections 1.13.2.4 and 1.13.2.6). The authors uncovered effective catalysts for this transformation, introducing substituted ethyl cyanoacetates as new and versatile synthons. 

Edmondson et al. [138] developed a synthesis of 2,3-disubstituted indoles using an am-ination as the first step (Scheme 8.67). The reaction of 264 and 265 with catalytic amounts of Pd2(dba)3 and the ligand 268 gave compound 267 in high yield. To get to the final indole, a second charge of palladium had to be added after 12 h, otherwise only the amination product was isolated. It can be assumed that in the first step the enaminone 266 is formed, which then cyclizes in a Mizoroki-Heck-type reaction to give 267. In a similar way, reaction of 264 and 269 led to 270 by an acyl migration in the Mizoroki-Heck cyclization product. 

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