Heck Stille coupling

Together with reactions named after Heck and Suzuki, the Stille reac-tion belongs to a class of modern, palladium-catalyzed carbon-carbon bond forming reactions. The palladium-catalyzed reaction of an organotin compound 2 with a carbon electrophile 1 is called Stille coupling. 

Phenyltrimethoxysilane 75 is activated by fluoride anion to 76, which undergoes palladium-catalyzed couphng with 4-methyliodobenzene 77 to give a nearly quantitative yield of 4-methyldiphenyl 78 [90]. Such Heck-, Stille-, or Suzuki-type C-C coupling of arylsilanes such as 75 were recently reviewed [91] (Scheme 2.12). 

Transition metal-catalysed reactions have emerged as powerful tools for carbon-carbon (C-C) bond formation [1], Cross-coupling reactions (Suzuki-Miyaura, Mizoroki-Heck, Stille, etc.) are recognised to be extremely reliable, robust and versatile. However, some other catalysed arylation reactions have been studied and have been reported to be very efficient [2]. In recent years, A -heterocyclic carbenes (NHC) have been extensively studied and their use as ligands for transition-metal catalysis has allowed for the significant improvement of many reactions [3]. This chapter highlights the use of NHC-bearing complexes in those arylation reactions. 

Heck, Stille, Suzuki, Sonagashira and Related Coupling Reactions... 

In conclusion, the fantastically diverse chemistry of indole has been significantly enriched by palladium-catalyzed reactions. The accessibility of all of the possible halogenated indoles and several indolyl triflates has resulted in a wealth of synthetic applications as witnessed by the length of this chapter. In addition to the standard Pd-catalyzed reactions such as Negishi, Suzuki, Heck, Stille and Sonogashira, which have had great success in indole chemistry, oxidative coupling and cyclization are powerful routes to a variety of carbazoles, carbolines, indolocarbazoles, and other fused indoles. 

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). 

Traditional Stille-type (49 + 50 -> 51 <998615>) and Heck-type couplings (52 S3 <99JHC145>) of halopyrimidines were also well represented. The latter reaction was utilized enroute to a new class of dihydrofolate reductase inhibitors 53. 

The intermolecular Heck reactions of oxazoles and thiazoles with olefins are not too common. They are rarely high yielding since in several cases they are biased by dehalogenation. Due to this reason the olefination of these systems is usually achieved through Stille coupling with vinylstannanes. 

Spear et al. chose the Heck reaction to elaborate 4-iodophenylsulfonyl chloride attached to Rink amide resin, that is, sulfonamide 18.43 The reaction (Scheme 16) was reported to be quantitative, as was a simple Stille coupling on the same molecule. Raju and Kogan used a Suzuki coupling on solid support (see below)44 to illustrate use of a new carbamate linker for the generation of more diverse sulfonamides than those above. 

Thiophenes have been prepared on insoluble supports mainly by arylation or viny-lation of halothiophenes and thienylstannanes (Table 15.10). Heck, Suzuki, and Stille couplings with thiophenes usually proceed as smoothly as those with substituted benzenes, and arylations or vinylations of thiophenes have often been used as examples to illustrate new conditions for the realization of these coupling reactions on solid phase. 

Stille coupling was also developed in tlie early 1980s and is similar to Suzuki coupling in its sequence. It is used to couple aryl or vinyl halides or triflates with organotin compounds via oxidative addition, transmetallation, and reductive elimination. The oxidative addition reaction has tlie same requirements and preferences as discussed earlier for tlie Heck and Suzuki reactions. The reductive elimination results in formation of tlie new carbon-carbon bond. The main difference is that tlie transmetallation reaction uses an organotin compound and occurs readily without the need for an oxygen base. Aryl, alkenyl, and alkyl stannanes are readily available. Usually only one of tlie groups on tin enters into... 

Fig. 16.18. Representative mechanism of the Pd-catalyzed C,C coupling of an organoboron compound. The elementary steps, discussed in the text, are (1) complexation, (2) oxidative addition, (3) transmetalation of the alkenylboron compound to afford an alkenylpalladium compound, (4) reductive elimination, and (5) dissociation of the coupled product from the metal. - Note Regarding the arrangement of the ligands around the metal center of the individual intermediates and the details of the transmetalation the present mechanistic analysis is less complete than the mechanistic analysis of other Pd-catalyzed C,C couplings, namely the Stille coupling (Figure 16.27) or Heck reaction (Figure 16.35, part II), which have been investigated in great detail.

The same authors also presented a completely selective three-component cascade reaction but of a slightly different type. By reacting 26 with a vinyl-stannane 27 (R = SnBus) in the presence of methyl acrylate or diethyl maleate, a sequential Stille-type [31] cross-coupling-Diels-Alder reaction took place, which only gave the desired products [30]. Since the Stille coupling proceeds without a base present, the dienophile does not participate in a Heck reaction, but only in a [4 + 2] cycloaddition with the initially formed electron-rich diene. 

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