Homocoupling reactions Subject

Combination of the reagents TiCU, BuaN, and TMSOTf, was reported to be effective for Claisen condensation, as exemplified in Eqs (42) and (43) [129]. When acyl-oxazolidinones were subjected to reaction with TiCU and a tertiary amine, homocoupling reaction at the a-position of the acyl group took place to give succinic acid derivatives [146], The lithium enolate of an ester or amide has been alkylated with an (N,C>)-acetal in the presence of Ti(0-/-Pr)4 (Eq. 44) [147,148]. 

Alkenylstannanes can be subjected to a homocoupling reaction by a copper(II)-mediated anodic oxidation [Eq.(14c)J [132b]. 

The reaction was applied to the formation of arylcopper used for homocoupling and coupling reactions, which have already been described in Section IV.B.2. In addition, it was established that the simple use of copper(I) salts in polar solvents permitted the transmetallation from tin to copper. The transient vinylcopper reagent was subjected to various intramolecular reactions such as coupling with vinyl halides , addition to a, /S-unsaturated ketones , to a, /3-unsaturated esters and addition to a, /3-alkynic esters . In addition to copper(I) halides, the reaction can be mediated by copper(I) cyanide and... 

A variety of 2- or 3-substituted thiophenes, as well as benzothiophenes, have been subjected to the catalytic direct arylation [3, 9, 10]. As expected, 2,2 -bithio-phene can be diarylated at the 5,5 -positions (Equation 10.47) [72], although the use of a bulky phosphine is of key importance for this reaction. 2,2 -Bithiophene protected by benzophenone at the 5-position reacts with aryl bromides, initially with liberation of the ketone (see Scheme 10.6, to give 5-aryl-2,2 -bithiophene, which is then arylated at the 5 -position (Equation 10.48) [72]. 5-Bromo-2,2 -bithio-phenes undergo oxidative homocoupling in the presence of a palladium complex and a silver salt (Equation 10.49) [73]. 

In a handful of cases, two CCXIH groups have been activated for the synthesis of biaryls. Larrosa and coworkers reported for the first time the decarboxylative homocoupling of aromatic acids mediated by Pd and Ag [62a]. The reaction makes use of Pd(TFA)j as a catalyst and Ag CO as an additive to afford the desired biaryls in 76-95% yields. The only by-products observed were due to the proto-decarboxylation of the aryl carboxylic acid. Both metals are essential for the reaction, and the role of the Ag salt is not only as the terminal oxidant but also as a mediator of the decarboxylation process. The method is subject to some limitations on the substituents on the benzoic acids. Thus, m- and p-nitrobenzoic acids as well as benzoic acids ortho substituted with F, Br, or MeO failed to give decarboxylative homocoupling products. In all cases, protodecarboxylations to the corresponding arenes were the main products observed. The same problem was reported in the protocol developed by Deng and coworkers, where the best results were obtained with PdCl and PPhj in the presence of Ag COj [62b]. 

Cross-coupling Reactions. Triphenyl(difluoro)silicates arise from the reaction of Phs SiH and quaternary onium hydrogendiflu-oride. These species can then be subject to cross-coupling phenyla-tion reactions under Pd-catalysis. Usefully, no homocoupled product formation was observed under these conditions (eq 32). ... 

Utilizing the same achiral building block 5, Haley and coworkers have also synthesized the less-symmetrical [22]annulene (Scheme 6.2) [11]. Triyne 5 was converted to oligomer 11 via a one-pot desilylation/alkynylation reaction with bis(2-iodophenyl)ethyne. Compound 11 was subsequently desilylated and subjected to intramolecular oxidative homocoupling conditions to provide the chiral annulene 12 in 59% yield. X-ray crystallographic analysis of 12 showed that the helical macrocycle adopts a distorted saddle-shaped conformation in the solid-state that is relatively free from strain. 

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