Intramolecular amination, Buchwald-Hartwig

Buchwald parlayed the powerful Buchwald-Hartwig aryl amination technology [439-447] into a simple and versatile indoline synthesis [448-452], For example, indole 368, which has been employed in total syntheses of the marine alkaloids makaluvamine C and damirones A and B, was readily forged via the Pd-mediated cyclization shown below [448], This intramolecular amination is applicable to the synthesis of -substituted optically active indolines [450], and o-bromobenzylic bromides can be utilized in this methodology, as illustrated for the preparation of 369 [451]. Furthermore, this Pd-catalyzed amination reaction has been applied to the synthesis of arylhydrazones, which are substrates for the Fischer indole synthesis [453,454],... 

A synergistic combination of Pd-catalyzed amination and arylation was the central operation of Sakamoto s synthesis of carbolines [147]. Diarylamine 187 was first installed via the Buchwald-Hartwig amination protocol. Subsequent intramolecular Heck-like arylation of 187 provided a novel route to a-carboline 188. 

A plausible mechanism for the one-pot synthesis ofcarbazoles is shown in Scheme 5. It consists of two interlinked catalytic cycles. In the first cycle a classical Buchwald-Hartwig amination reaction occurs to generate an intermediate 5 which then enters the second cycle by oxidative addition to Pd(0). The resulting Pd(II) complex then undergoes intramolecular C-H activation to give a six-membered palladacycle which subsequently yields the carbazole by reductive elimination. 

Benzodiazepines are an important class of molecular scaffolds due to their repeated observations in biologically active compounds. An intramolecular version of the Buchwald-Hartwig reaction was applied to the synthesis of pyridobenzodiazepinones. To this end, targets 423 and 425 could be prepared by intramolecular amination of 422 and 424, respectively [151]. 

A stoichiometric, intramolecular variant of the Buchwald-Hartwig amination was reported by D, L. Boger and J, S. Panek as early as 1984 in the synthesis of lavendamycin.7 They showed that 1.2 equiv of Pd(PPh3)4 could effect the intramolecular cyclization of an amino bromide 1 to the desired heterocycle 2. The absence of an external base to sequester the generated HBr rendered this reaction super-stoichiometric in palladium. 

A less direct strategy for indole synthesis (58) is the intramolecular Buchwald-Hartwig amination of an enamine 57 catalyzed by (DPPF)PdCl2.99 It is necessary to use the Z-enamine isomer 57 that was set by a Homer-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction. 

Carbazoles can be obtained by a sequence of Buchwald-Hartwig amination and intramolecular Heck-type biaryl coupling. Depending on the distribution of... 

Scheme 45 Synthesis of carbazoles 32 by Buchwald-Hartwig amination and subsequent cyclization by intramolecular Heck-type coupling of the intermediate diarylamines 197...

Benzodiazepines are privileged structures that are frequently present in biologically active compounds. Pyridobenzodiazepinone 137 was synthesized by an intramolecular Buchwald-Hartwig amination of... 

Orr/zc- em-Dihalovinylanilines 278 were also used in another example of a Buchwald-Hartwig-type/Mizoroki-Heck reaction for the synthesis of 2-vinylic indoles 279 (Scheme 8.69). Lautens and coworkers [140] recently illustrated a domino coupUng under Jeffery s condition where the aniline nitrogen undergoes an amination step followed by a Mizoroki-Heck coupling with various alkenes. In this process, electronic factors and steric hindrance of the different substituents had only a small effect on the yield however, in the formation of 3-substituted indoles using this method only very poor yields were obtained. The procedure can also be performed in an intramolecular mode leading to tricycUc compounds such as pyridino and azepino indoles 281 and 282 (Scheme 8.69). 

Indoles can be synthesized via a palladium-mediated intramolecular amination reaction of an appropriately substituted haloarene. This is a specific application of the Buchwald-Hartwig amination reaction that has found use in the synthesis of biologically active natural products. 

Buchwald quickly parlayed this transformation into a versatile indole synthesis via oxidation of intermediate indolines prepared using the above intramolecular Buchwald-Hartwig amination. Variations leading directly to indoles and related nitrogen-containing heterocycles quickly followed and are described below. 

Heterocycles related to indoles can also be prepared using the Buchwald-Hartwig amination strategy. For instance, indazole 15 can be prepared from hydrazine 14. Benzimidazole derivatives may also be prepared from the intramolecular guanidinylation of aryl bromides. And oxindoles can be prepared from the intramolecular amidation of aryl bromides. ... 

The Buchwald-Hartwig amination (see Chapter 13) can be combined with an intramolecular carbopalladation. In particular, an allene as in 142 can serve as a suitable initiator (Scheme 8.33) [336]. Depending on the reaction conditions, either the C-N or the C-C coupling proceeds first... 

Indole is one of the most important heterocyclic scaffolds for drug discovery. Approaches for indole synthesis using hydroamination as a key step in their syntheses has been an ongoing area of investigation over the past several years [329, 330]. Early examples focused on one-pot intermolecular hydrohydrazination followed by the Lewis-acid-catalyzed Fischer indole synthesis [331, 332] (Scheme 15.102) or one-pot intermolecular hydroamination followed by cross-coupling to either form a C-N bond (via the Buchwald-Hartwig amination) [333] (Scheme 15.103) or a C-C bond (via a Heck reaction) [334, 335] (Scheme 15.104). Alternatively, o-alkynylanilines can be used directly as substrates for intramolecular hydroamination (Scheme 15.105) [198, 200, 336-340]. These approaches have been thoroughly reviewed [10]. 

To overcome the ring closure of intermediate 10 giving rise to by-product 8 that was particularly encountered with secondary alkyl halides. Tautens and coworkers [22] developed conditions that favor the oxidative addition of alkyl hahdes. The methodology was widely applied to the intramolecular (Scheme 19.12) and intermolecular ortho alkylation of aromatic C-H bonds with secondary alkyl iodides and bromides [23]. Depending on the terminating reactions employed (the Heck reaction, direct arylation of heterocycles, and the Buchwald-Hartwig amination), a variety of valuable heterocydes were efficiently prepared. It should be pointed out that the reaction of enantioenriched substrates occurred with... 

In 2012, T2ik2ihashi et al. [30] reported the catalytic enantioselective synthesis of atropisomeric 2-aryl-4-quinolinone derivatives using the Buchwald-Hartwig reaction with a (i )-MOP-Pd2(dba)3 catalyst. This reaction involved the 1,4-addition of aniline to an ynone, followed by an intramolecular Buchw2ild-Hartwig amination. An enantioselectivity as high as 72% ee could be achieved (Scheme 2.4). 

Mechanistic investigations showed, that a sequence of tandem intramolecular Buchwald-Hartwig amination and intermolecular Suzuki-Miyaura coupHng is likely to occur as dominant process (for system 103 with simpHfied formulations for oxidative... 

In 2010, Luo and coworkers reported a practical and highly efficient route to the synthesis of pharmaceutically interesting quinoxalinones (Luo et al. 2010). The key step involves an intramolecular palladium-catalyzed A-arylation reaction (Buchwald-Hartwig amination Janey 2007 Appukkuttan and Van der Eycken 2008) under microwave irradiation. The precursors to the quinoxalinone core were easily prepared from D,L-proline 309d in accordance with the mixed anhydride protocol followed by Boc group deprotection (Scheme 2.57). 

The palladium-catalyzed intramolecular C-H arylation of aromatic C-H bonds with haloarenes (Ar-H/Ar-X coupling, where X is halogen) is effective for the synthesis of carbazole alkaloids with amine linkers, as reported by Bedford and coworkers in 2006 (Scheme 16.16a) [34]. Buchwald-Hartwig coupling of an aryl bromide and an aniline derivative generated aryl chloride 91 in situ, which was easily cyclized under palladium catalysis to give clausine P in 80% yield. They also... 

In 2002, the expansion of the Buchwald-Hartwig amination reaction to alkenyl halide electrophiles was reported. This has proven to be a useful method for the construction of enamines or imines that are difficult to prepare using traditional condensation reactions [127]. For example, Voskoboynikov and coworkers [128] demonstrated that azoles could be stereoselectively coupled with either E- or Z-p-bromostyrene to generate enamines using a catalyst composed of Pd(dba)2 and P(t-Bu)3 (Eq. 15). In the same year, Mori and Kozawa reported Pd(OAc)2/DPE-Phos catalyzed intramolecular iV-aUcenylation reactions that afforded bicycUc p-lactams (Eq. 16) [129]. 

During (he last few years, a novel Pd(O)-catalyzed method for C-N bond formation from amines and aryl halides has emerged largely due to contributions from the Buchwald and Hartwig groups [120, 121]. In one application, an intramolecular C-N bond linkage was realized using classic palladium catalysis condition in Buchwald s synthesis of tetrahydropyrroloquinoline... 

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