Heck reaction with alkynes

An early example having potential commercial importance comes from tlie Trost laboratory s synthesis of vitamin D analogs (Scheme 6-23) [51], Their combination of vinyl bromide 129 and alkyne 130 to form triene 131 led to a concise and efficient synthesis of (-i-)-alphacalcidiol (134). In this reaction, vinyl bromide 129 participates in a bimolecular Heck reaction with alkyne 130 and the resulting alkenylpalladium intermediate 133 undergoes subsequent intramolecular Heck reaction with the pendant terminal alkene to provide 131. Under the reaction conditions, some of the desired product undergoes a [1,7]-hydrogen shift to yield 132. After thermal recycling of the minor component, a remarkable 76% yield of 131 was obtained. 

Currently, there seems to be a widespread tendency to call many reactions proceeding via carbopalladation the Heck reaction. However, this practice is clearly incorrect, since the scope of carbopalladation is significantly wider than that of the Heck reaction. The alkyne carbopalladation reaction shown in Scheme 4, which is not accompanied by /J-dchydropalladation may not be viewed as an example of the Heck reaction. In fact, this chapter focuses its attention on various carbopalladation reactions that may not be considered as examples of the Heck reaction. Although some of such processes are combined with the Heck reaction in many cases. 

The products of standard hydrothiolation processes are capable of further undergoing subsequent transformations, such as Pt-catalyzed Heck reactions with appropriately tethered alkyne acceptors (23) [235]. Furthermore, Beletskaya demonstrated that following the organometallic intermediates formed in addition of disulfides to terminal alkynes may be intercepted these were found to undergo further carbon-carbon bond formation in the presence of a suitable ligand and excess alkyne (24) [158],... 

A cascade Heck reaction with termination by nucleophiles is considered to start with an oxidative addition of a heteroatom-carbon bond (starter) onto a palladium(O) species (startup reaction), followed by carbopalladation of a nonaromatic carbon-carbon double or triple bond without subsequent dehydropalladation (relay), a second and possibly further carbopalladation of a carbon-carbon double or triple bond (second etc. relay). The terminating step is a displacement of the palladium residue by an appropriate nucleophile. It is crucial for a successful cascade carbopalladation that no premature dehydropalladation takes place, and that can be prevented by using alkynes and 1,1-disubstituted alkenes (or certain cycloalkenes) as relay stations since they give kinetically stable alkenyl- or neopentylpalladium intermediates, respectively. In addition, reaction of haloalkenes with alkenes in certain cases may form rr-allyl complexes, which are then trapped by various nucleophiles. 

In order to find alternative routes to functimial olefins via the very useful Heck reaction [52] oxidative dehydrogenative cross-coupling of sp C-H bonds with (alkene) C-H bond was first discovered using Pd(II) catalyst and an oxidant, by Moritani and Fujiwara [25,53], This oxidative alkenylation of aromatic C-H bonds profitably performed using cheap and stable mthenium(ll) catalysts was shown for the first time in 2011 successively by the groups of Satoh and Miura [54], Ackermann [55], Bruneau and Dixneuf [56], and Jegaiunohan [57] [(Eq. 2)]. This Ru(n)-catalysed alkenylation reaction offers a potential to reach a large variety of functional alkenes at low cost and has been extended to annulation reactions with alkynes for a fast access to heterocycles. 

The original Sonogashira reaction uses copper(l) iodide as a co-catalyst, which converts the alkyne in situ into a copper acetylide. In a subsequent transmeta-lation reaction, the copper is replaced by the palladium complex. The reaction mechanism, with respect to the catalytic cycle, largely corresponds to the Heck reaction.Besides the usual aryl and vinyl halides, i.e. bromides and iodides, trifluoromethanesulfonates (triflates) may be employed. The Sonogashira reaction is well-suited for the synthesis of unsymmetrical bis-2xy ethynes, e.g. 23, which can be prepared as outlined in the following scheme, in a one-pot reaction by applying the so-called sila-Sonogashira reaction ... 

Transition metal-catalyzed transformations are of major importance in synthetic organic chemistry [1], This reflects also the increasing number of domino processes starting with such a reaction. In particular, Pd-catalyzed domino transformations have seen an astounding development over the past years with the Heck reaction [2] - the Pd-catalyzed transformation of aryl halides or triflates as well as of alkenyl halides or triflates with alkenes or alkynes - being used most often. This has been combined with another Heck reaction or a cross-coupling reaction [3] such as Suzuki, Stille, and Sonogashira reactions. Moreover, several examples have been published with a Tsuji-Trost reaction [lb, 4], a carbonylation, a pericyclic or an aldol reaction as the second step. 

Tietze and coworkers [60] observed a combination of a Heck reaction and a C-H-activation by treatment of the alkyne 6/1-111 with Pd°. These authors aimed at compound 6/1-112, but 6/1-110 was obtained as a single product in high yield (Scheme 6/1.29). It can again be assumed that after oxidative addition a cis-carbopalladation of the triple bond takes place to give an alkenyl Pd intermediate which undergoes the C-H-insertion into the neighboring naphthalene and not into the aryl ether moiety. 

A few additional Pd-catalyzed schemes have been employed for Ilac type cyclization chemistry. Palladium-phenanthroline complexes were used by the Ragaini group to prepare indoles via the intermolecular cyclization of nitroarenes and alkynes in the presence of carbon monoxide <06JOC3748>. Jia and Zhu employed Pd-catalysis for the annulation of o-haloanilines with aldehydes <06JOC7826>. A one-pot Ugi/Heck reaction was employed in the preparation of polysubstituted indoles from a four-component reaction system of acrylic aldehydes, bromoanilines, acids, and isocyanides <06TL4683>. 

Palladium-catalysed C-C bond formation under Heck reaction conditions, which normally requires anhydrous conditions and the presence of copper(I) salts, is aided by the addition of quaternary ammonium salts. It has been shown that it is frequently possible to dispense with the copper catalyst and use standard two-phase reactions conditions [e.g. 18, 19]. Tetra-/i-butylammonium salts catalyse the palladium-catalysed reaction of iodoarenes with alkynes to yield the arylethynes in high yield [20, 21], whereas the reaction with 3-methylbut-1 -yn-3-ol (Scheme 6.30) provides a route to diarylethynes [22]. Diarylethynes are also formed from the reaction of an iodoarene with trimethylsilylethyne [23], Iodoalkynes react with a,p-unsaturated ketones and esters to produce the conjugated yne-eneones [19],... 

We continued our work with the reductive Heck and Domino-Heck reactions [1, 7J of new bicyclic compound (3) by treating it with different aryl- and hetaryl-iodides, as a result a series of new epibatidine analogues were synthesized, continuously separated and purificated by column chromatography on silica gel. Treatment of 3 with iodobenzene, 2-iodothiophene, 1-iodonapthalene and 2-chloro-5-iodopy-ridine under reductive Heck conditions gave new compounds 4a-d and 5b, 5d as exo-regioisomers after chromatographic separations. The reactions with iodobenzene and 1-iodonapthalene gave only 5-exo- products. The use of trimethylsily-lacetylene under Domino-Heck conditions provided alkynic bicyclic systems 6e andf. 

Halogen atoms. The introduction of side-chains on 9-trifluoromethyl-paullone 409 can be accomplished applying a Stille coupling (Scheme 86, Section 5.2.1.1 (2005EJM655)). Similarly, a Heck reaction of iodo 409 with terminal alkenes under standard conditions affords 2-substituted paullones 413 exclusively as E-isomers. The reaction of terminal alkynes with 409 in the presence of cuprous iodide and a palladium catalyst in triethylamine furnishes the 2-alkynyl-paullones 412 (2000BMCL567). 

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