Solvents Heck reactions

Heck reaction. Solvent-free conditions with microwave irradiation have been developed for the Heck reaction. Phosphites are excellent ligands such that even electron-deficient aryl chlorides can be used to couple with different alkenes. Isoquinolines are formed by using the more conventional procedure note the same 3-(o-iodobenzylamino)acrylic esters give dihydroisoindole derivatives when they are exposed to Bu,SnH-AIBN. A combination of BUjP and dppp together with /-Pr NEt constitutes support for Pd(OAc)2 in an intramolecular coupling which leads to benzophenanthridines. ... 

The Heck reaction is considered to be the best method for carbon-carbon bond formation by substitution of an olefinic proton. In general, yields are good to very good. Sterically demanding substituents, however, may reduce the reactivity of the alkene. Polar solvents, such as methanol, acetonitrile, N,N-dimethylformamide or hexamethylphosphoric triamide, are often used. Reaction temperatures range from 50 to 160 °C. There are various other important palladium-catalyzed reactions known where organopalladium complexes are employed however, these reactions must not be confused with the Heck reaction. 

From a practical point of view, it is worth noting that Heck reactions catalyzed by Pd/P( -Bu)3 do not typically require rigorously purified reagents or solvents. In addition, the palladium and phosphine sources, Pd[P(7-Bu)3]2 and Pd2(dba)3, are commercially available and can be handled in air. 

Larhed et al. investigated enantioselective Heck reactions with 2,3-dihydrofuran as alkene [86]. In the coupling with phenyl triflate, conditions previously reported by Pfaltz [87] were attempted under microwave irradiation. Interestingly, the catalytic system Pd2(dba)3/(4S)-4-t-butyl-2-[2-(diphenylphosphanyl)phenyl]-4,5-dihydro-l,3-oxazole, identified by the Swiss team, was found suitable for high-temperature microwave-assisted enantioselective Heck reactions (Scheme 76). Using a proton sponge as a base and benzene as a solvent gave the best conversions (Scheme 76). At tempera-... 

The Yao group has made use of a Ic type intramolecular Heck reaction to prepare the C2-symmetric dimeric indole core of chloptosin <06OL4919>. A solvent-free variation of the Bischler indole synthesis, electrophilic cyclization of a-arylamino imine tautomers prepared from aniline derived a-arylamino ketones, has been used by Menendez and co-workers for the preparation of 2-arylindoles <06SL91>. 

There are many other examples in the literature where sealed-vessel microwave conditions have been employed to heat water as a reaction solvent well above its boiling point. Examples include transition metal catalyzed transformations such as Suzuki [43], Heck [44], Sonogashira [45], and Stille [46] cross-coupling reactions, in addition to cyanation reactions [47], phenylations [48], heterocycle formation [49], and even solid-phase organic syntheses [50] (see Chapters 6 and 7 for details). In many of these studies, reaction temperatures lower than those normally considered near-critical (Table 4.2) have been employed (100-150 °C). This is due in part to the fact that with single-mode microwave reactors (see Section 3.5) 200-220 °C is the current limit to which water can be safely heated under pressure since these instruments generally have a 20 bar pressure limit. For generating truly near-critical conditions around 280 °C, special microwave reactors able to withstand pressures of up to 80 bar have to be utilized (see Section 3.4.4). 

In the Heck reactions discussed above it was essential to use polar aprotic solvents such as acetonitrile or DMF if high regioselectivity was to be achieved. In other Heck couplings the use of water as a solvent has recently gained attention. The advantages of water compared with standard organic solvents are many - it is, for example, cheap and nontoxic - but its usefulness extends only over a number of well-defined applications, partly because of problems with the solubility of the reactants and catalysts. The development of aqueous catalytic systems is, consequently, an important field [21]. 

Traditional Heck arylation of the corresponding ethyl vinyl ether afforded high yields with most of the aryl bromides investigated (Eq. 11.11). Under continuous singlemode microwave treatment the transformations were complete within 10-12 min [25], Heck reactions without solvent in a domestic microwave oven have been examined by Diaz-Ortiz [26]. The reactions were conducted in closed vessels with reported temperatures of 150 °C. A study was performed in which reactions performed with microwave irradiation were compared with oil-bath-heated reactions with identical reaction times and temperatures. The isolated yields tended to substantially favor the microwave-heated reactions (Eq. 11.12). 

Overman s group [71,72] enlisted an intramolecular Heck reaction to form a quaternary center in their efforts toward ( )-gelsemine. When the cyclization precursor 70 was submitted to the ligandless conditions [Pd2(dba)3, Et3N] in the weakly coordinating solvent toluene, the quaternary center was formed as a 9 1 ratio of diastereomers (72 71 = 89 11). Addition of a silver salt in polar solvent THF completely reversed the sense of asymmetric induction in the cyclization reaction (72 71 = 3 97). 

Akita and Ohta revealed one of the early Heck reactions of halopyrazines [23]. They reacted 2-chloro-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (23) with styrene in the presence of Pd(Ph3P)4 and KOAc using A(//-dimethylacetamide (DMA) as solvent to make ( )-2,5-dimethyl-3-styrylpyrazine (51). This methodology was later extended to 2-chloropyrazine IV-oxides although the yields were modest (28-38%) [37]. 

Although the Heck reaction is synthetically very useful, it requires quite high molar quantities of palladium catalyst to be effective. As such, one of the main goals is to find a solvent that helps to increase the lifetime of the catalyst and consequently reduce the amount of catalyst required. In this respect, ionic liquids show considerable promise. Another key goal in this area is to be able to replace iodo- and bromoarenes, usually used as substrates in these reactions, with chloroarenes, which are more environmentally acceptable. Again, ionic liquids show some promise in this respect. Scheme 10.2 shows the Heck reaction between styrene and chlorobenzene that has been investigated in a number of ionic liquids. 

Domino-Heck Reactions-General Procedure 5.6 mg (25 pmol) of palladium(II) acetate and 55 pmol of the arsine ligand were dissolved in 3 ml of dry dimethyl formamide and the solution was stirred at 65°C (40°C for trimethylsilylacetylene) for 15 mitt Then, 127 mg (1.35 mmol) N-Benzoyl-2-azabicyclo[2.2.1]hept-5-en-3-one, 1 mmol of the aryl compound. Four hundred and eighty-eight microliters (3.50 mmol) of triethylamine, and 3.00 mmol of the phenylacetylene (or silylmethyl-acetylene) were added rapidly in one portion. The mixture was heated at the same temperature for 24 h. After cooling down to room temperature 50 ml of brine were added, the reaction mixture was extracted with ethyl acetate and dried over MgSO. The solvent was evaporated, the residue purified by column chromatography (n-Hexan-Ethyl acetate 4 1). 

Kobayashi, S. J0rgensen, K. A. (Eds.) Cycloaddition Reactions in Organic Synthesis, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2002 Carmichael, A. J., Earle, M. J., Holbrey, J. D. et al. The Heck reaction in ionic liquids a multiphasic catalyst system, Org. Lett., 1999, 1, 997-1000 Forsyth, S. A., Gunaratne, H. Q. N. Hardacre, C. et al. Utilisation of ionic liquid solvents for the synthesis of Lily-of-the-Valley fragrance beta-Lilial (R), 3-(4-t-butylphenyl)- 2-methylpropanal, J. Mol. Catal. A-Chem., 2005, 231(1-2), 61-66. 

Analogously, over the years, Arai and co-workers have investigated silica-supported ethylene glycol as a catalyst-philic phase, which contained a metal precursor, for C-C bond-forming reactions, such as the Heck reaction. They describe a multiphasic system with an organic phase (solvent) that contains only reactants and products without any catalyst. The products could be recovered by simple filtration, and the catalyst recycled many times without deactivation, since it did not precipitate, thus making the catalytic system stable and reusable (Figure 6.7). °... 

As detailed elsewhere, the fluorous palladacycle acetates and hahdes 7 and 8 were synthesized [38,39]. These feature three Rfg ponytails, and were poorly soluble in common organic solvents at room temperature, and insoluble in DMF. However, they were very soluble in DMF at higher temperatures. All were effective catalyst precursors for Heck reactions (100-140 °C), and precipitated (as the halides) upon cooling. However, a number of control experiments established that 7 and 8 served as steady-state sources of colloidal palladium nanoparticles, formed anew with each cycle imtil the palladacycles were exhausted. These, or low-valent Pd(0) species derived therefrom, were the true catalysts. 

The Mizoroki-Heck reaction in liquid imidazolium salts as the solvent is a special case of an in situ system Under the reaction conditions NHC complexes of palladium are formed as the active catalyst from the solvent and the ligand-free palladium precursor. In general, ionic liquids are novel reaction media for homogeneous catalysis. They allow easy separation of product and catalyst after the reaction. ... 

In contrast, ionic liquids have been reported to be suitable solvents for Heck reactions because the products can be readily separated from the ionic liquids containing the homogeneous palladium catalysts. An early test with a palladium complex in ionic liquids showed remarkably improved recyclability of the catalyst (255), but palladium black still formed after several runs with recycled catalyst. 

The choice of an ionic liquid was shown to be critical in experiments with [NBuJBr (TBAB, m.p. 110°C) as a catalyst carrier to isolate a cyclometallated complex homogeneous catalyst, tra .s-di(ri-acetato)-bis[o-(di-o-tolylphosphino) benzyl] dipalladium (II) (Scheme 26), which was used for the Heck reaction of styrene with aryl bromides and electron-deficient aryl chlorides. The [NBu4]Br displayed excellent stability for the reaction. The recycling of 1 mol% of palladium in [NBu4]Br after the reaction of bromobenzene with styrene was achieved by distillation of the reactants and products from the solvent and catalyst in vacuo. Sodium bromide, a stoichiometric salt byproduct, was left in the solvent-catalyst system. High catalytic activity was maintained even after the formation of visible palladium black after a fourth run and after the catalyst phase had turned more viscous after the sixth run. The decomposition of the catalyst and the formation of palladium... 

When another palladium complex, diiodobis(l, 3-dimethylimidazolium-2-ylidene)palladium(II), was used as a catalyst (257), it resulted in a large improvement in catalyst stability in the same ionic liquid. The Heck reaction performed better in the ionic liquid than in organic solvents such as dimethylfuran (DMF). In the reaction of bromobenzene with styrene, the yield of stilbene was increased from 20% in DMF to 99% in [NBu4][Br]. The ionic liquid showed excellent solubility for all the reacting molecules. 

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