Heterocyclic compounds palladium complexes

Recently, the oxidative addition of C2-S bond to Pd has been described. Methyl levamisolium triflate reacts with [Pd(dba)2] to give the cationic palladium complex 35 bearing a chiral bidentate imidazolidin-2-ylidene ligand [120]. The oxidative addition of the levamisolium cation to triruthenium or triosmium carbonyl compounds proceeds also readily to yield the carbene complexes [121], The oxidative addition of imidazolium salts is not limited to or d transition metals but has also been observed in main group chemistry. The reaction of a 1,3-dimesitylimidazolium salt with an anionic gallium(I) heterocycle proceeds under formation of the gaUium(III) hydrido complex 36 (Fig. 12) [122]. 

The most recent development concerns the heterocyclic (amino)(ylide)carbenes AYC. Such compounds have been known for some years [203] but so far had little impact compared to their diamino stabilized relatives. Both phosphorus ylide (86) and sulfur ylide (87) stabilized AYC ligands have been generated in situ and were stabilized at suitable metal centers (Fig. 27) [204, 205]. The palladium complex 88 with an anionic (amino) [bis(ylide)]carbene is also known [206]. 

Three methods are commonly employed for the in situ preparation of organopalladium derivatives (i) direct metallation of an arene or heterocyclic compound with a palladium(II) salt (ii) exchange of the organic group from a main group organometallic to a palladium(II) compound and (iii) oxidative addition of an organic halide, triflate or aryldiazonium salt to palladium(O) or a palladium(O) complex. 

Metal complexes of heterocyclic compounds display reactivities changed greatly from those of the uncomplexed parent systems. All of the -electron system(s) of the parent heterocycle can be tied up in the complex formation, or part can be left to take part in alkenic reactions. The system may be greatly stabilized in the complex, so that reactions, on a heteroatom, for example, can be performed which the parent compound itself would not survive. Orbital energy levels may be split and symmetries changed, allowing hitherto forbidden reactions to occur. In short, a multitude of new reaction modes can be made possible by using complexes dimerization of azirines with a palladium catalyst serves as a typical example (Scheme 81). A variety of other insertion reactions, dimerizations, intramolecular cyclizations, and intermolecular addition reactions of azirines are promoted by transition metals. 

Vinylcyclopropanes and organomercury or thallium compounds are starting materials for a recent novel preparation of Ti-allyl palladium complexes which can finally be converted to heterocycles ... 

The formation of ortho palladium products from a-aryl nitrogen derivatives and palladium salts is well known. Complexes formed from azobenzene, Schiff bases, tertiary benzylamines and oximes readily undergo insertion of CO into the metal-carbon bond to give, after work-up, a variety of heterocyclic compounds. Unfortunately, such reactions use expensive palladium salts in stoichiometric quantities. However, a number of related reactions have been shown to proceed in the presence of only catalytic quantities of palladium. Isoindolinones, for example, can be synthesized in good yield by reaction of o-bromoaminoalkylbenzenes with CO (100 C, 1 bar) in the presence of catalytic amounts of Pd(OAc)2, PPha and Bu"3N (equation 56). °... 

These alkenylation products are easily utilized for the formation of heterocyclic compounds by cyclization reactions. For example, ethyl A -methyl-lV-(3,4-methylenedioxy)benzylglycinate is cyclopalladated regiospecifically at C(6) when treated with Li2PdCl4. The product, the di-p-chloro-bis(AOV-dialkylbenzylamine-6-C,iV)-dipalladium(II) complex 7.19, undergoes a substitution reaction via the insertion of methyl vinyl ketone between the palladium metal and the phenyl carbon atom. The resultant p-aryl-a,p-unsaturated ketone 7.20 is cyclized using anhydrous potassium carbonate in ethanol to the corresponding ethyl iV-methyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinolinium-3-carboxylate 7.21, as shown in Eq. (7.19) [76, 77]. 

Given the tremendous variety of naturally occurring heterocyclic compounds, the development of elegant and efficient routes to the appropriately substituted ring systems is a formidable task. o-Amino- and ohydroxysubstituted iodoarenes such as 172-XH (X = 0, NR) can undergo a vast array of reactions with 1,2-, 1,3-, and 1,4-dienes, as well as ethenylcyclopropanes, when treated with an appropriate palladium catalyst [140, 153d,f, 346]. Several of these reactions that lead to substituted dihydrobenzofurans and dihydroindoles 168,170,191,175 also proceed via intermediate tt-aUylpalladium complexes (Scheme 8.41). 

Palladium complexes with an heterocyclic N-containing ligand have been used in the carbonylation of aromatic nitro compounds with cocatalysts such as cyclopentadienyl halides or oxyhalides of transition metals belonging to group V e.g. CP2VCI) [168], a cyclopentadienyl halide or oxyhalide together with phosphorus oxytrichloride [169], or a 1,3-diketone derivative of vanadium [170], even also in the presenee of phosphorus oxychloride [171]. 

Palladium complexes featuring A -heterocyclic carbene ligands (NHCs, Fig. 11.1) are a class of compounds of supreme importance in modern chemistry, which are extensively applied, in particular, in catalysis of cross-coupling reactions [1-4], Complexes with these species have challenged the dominance of the commonly used tertiary phosphine-based catalysts in a wide range of palladium-catalyzed organic processes [3, 4],... 

In 2006, Trost and co-workers reported a one-pot synthesis of enantiopure N- and O-heterocyclic compounds using the combination of an achiral ruthenium catalyst and a chiral palladium complex. After the completion of the ruthenium-catalysed alkene-alkyne cross-coupling reaction between the... 

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