Iodonium phenyl derivatives

A new type of iodonium salts constitute the conformationally rigid, tetranu-clear macrocyclic ring systems dubbed molecular boxes. The relatively simpler tetraaryltetraiodonium salts were obtained from 4,4 -bis(diacetoxyiodo)bi-phenyl and 4,4 -bis(trimethylsilyl)biphenyl [119]. The iodonium salt derived from 4-(4 -lithiophenyl)pyridine was made using the method of /J-(dichloroio-do)chloroethylene and it was used for the construction of hybrid iodonium-platinum (or palladium) cationic tetranuclear macrocyclic squares including some in which the ligand of the metal was a chiral biphosphine [120,121]. 

Alkynyliodonium ions, 1 and 2, are hypervalent iodine species in which one or two alkynyl ligands are bound to a positively charged iodine(III) atom. They are sensitive to nucleophiles, especially at the /1-carbon atom(s) of the alkynyl ligand(s), and for that reason, the isolation of stable alkynyliodonium salts generally requires the incorporation of nucleofugic anions. A list of known alkynyliodonium compounds (i.e. as of 4/1/94), containing 134 iodonium salts derived from 103 iodonium ions, and references (5-45) to their preparation and characterization are presented in Table 1. Among these compounds, alkynyl(phenyl)iodonium sulfonates and tetrafluoroborates are the most common, while alkynyl(alkyl)iodonium salts of any kind are unknown. 

Stereoselective carbon-carbon bond formations with hypervalent iodine reagents are also prominently described in the literature. Direct asynunetric a-arylation reactions are not easy to perform. Ochiai et al. synthesized chiral diaryliodonium salts such as [l,l -binaphthalen]-2-yl(phenyl)iodonium tetrafluoroborate derivatives 21 via a BFs-catalyzed tin-X -iodane exchange reaction and developed the direct asymmetric a-phenylation of enolate anions derived from cyclic p-ketoesters (Scheme 7) [37]. A beautiful example of direct asymmetric a-arylation of cyclohexanones in the course of a natural product synthesis was presented through the desymmetrization of 4-substituted cyclohexanones using Simpkin s base, followed by coupling with diaryliodonium salts [38]. Other binaphthyl iodonium salts related to 21 have also been reported [39]. 

Diarylmethylenecyclopropa[6]naphthalenes 14, unlike their benzene parent counterparts which give cycloaddition reactions at the cyclopropene bridge bond [10a], react on the exo double bond in Diels-Alder cycloadditions (see Sect. 2.1.1) [10b]. The reactions of 14 with the highly electron-deficient acetylenic(phenyl)iodonium triflate 584 give products 586a and 587, which are believed to derive from unstable primary [2 + 2] cycloadducts 585 (Scheme 82) [10b],... 

Furoxan and furazans alcohols are relatively uncommon compounds, but they can serve as useful precursors to various new derivatives of 1,2,4-oxadiazole. 3-Hydroxy-4-nitrofurazan 208 reacts with iodosylbenzene to produce a highly reactive intermediate phenyliodonium nitrofurazanylate 209 which can be converted to a series of alkynyl(phenyl)-iodonium nitrofurazanylates and related products (Scheme 48) <2001TL5759>. 

Stang etal. (94JA93) have developed another alkynyliodonium salt mediated approach for the synthesis of y-lactams including bicyclic systems containing the pyrrole moiety. This method is based on the formation of 2-cyclopentenones 114 via intramolecular 1,5-carbon-hydrogen insertion reactions of [/3-(p-toluenesulfonyl)alkylidene]carbenes 113 derived from Michael addition of sodium p-toluenesulfinate to /3-ketoethynyl(phenyl) iodonium triflates 112 (Scheme 32). Replacing 112 by j8-amidoethynyl (phenyl)iodonium triflates 115-119 provides various y-lactams as outlined in Eqs. (26)-(30). 

It has been shown that selective a-vinylation of enolate anions derived from 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds can be achieved by reaction with 4-/-butyl-1 -cyclohexenyl-(aryl)iodonium and 1-cyclopentenyl(aryl)iodonium tehafluoroborates without competing a-arylation, provided that the alkenyliodonium salt used bears a / -mcthoxyphcnyl, rather than phenyl, group.24... 

Enolate anions derived from various 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds can be viny-lated with cyclohexenyl- and cyclopentenyl- iodonium salts (Scheme 27) [50]. The vinylation of enolate anions 58 in these reactions is frequently accompanied by the formation of the phenylated dicarbonyl compounds however, the selectivity of these vinylations can be improved by using alkenyl(p-methoxyphenyl)-iodonium salts instead of 57. 

A similar intermolecular cyclization was recently utilized in the synthesis of highly substituted dihydropyrrole derivatives [133 -135]. In a specific example, the addition of pentadienyltosylamide derivatives 177 to propynyl(phenyl)iodo-nium triflate initiates a sequence of transformations that furnishes the complex, highly functionalized cyclopentene-annelated dihydropyrrole products 178 in moderate yields with complete stereoselection (Scheme 66). Under similar reaction conditions, the isomeric isoprene-derived tosylamide 179 reacts with propynyl(phenyl)iodonium triflate to give azabicyclo[3.1.0]hexane 180 as the final product [134]. 

This approach to N-alkynylsulfonamides has been applied to the synthesis of enantiomerically pure derivatives 27 of N-(ethynyl)allylglycine (Scheme 52) [152]. In this case, deprotonated sulfonamide derivatives of (S)-allylglycine were treated with ethynyl(phenyl)iodonium triflate (28), since the trimethylsi-lylethynyl salt 26 was not very effective for this purpose. 

MCI reactions of alkynyliodonium salts with enolates derived from active methylene compounds containing two acidic CH bonds follow a divergent course that leads to furans, presumably via carbenic insertion into enolic OH bonds (equation 122)28. In the reaction of acetylacetonate ion with the l-decynyl(phenyl)iodonium ion, CH insertion is competitive with OH insertion (equation 123)28. 

Because the hydrogen atom and phenyl group migrate so readily, the reactions of / -dicarbonyl enolates with ethynyl- and (phenylethynyl)iodonium salts can be expected to result in alkynylation. It has already been noted that the 2- -hexyl-l,3-indandionate ion undergoes alkynylation with (phenylethynyl)phenyliodonium tetrafluoroborate (equation 43), despite the availability of the -hexyl group for [2 + 3] annulation. Ethynylations of six / -dicarbonyl enolates and the anion of 2-nitrocyclohexane with ethynyl(phenyl)-iodonium tetrafluoroborate in THF have also been reported27. For example, admixture of the ethynyliodonium salt and the anion of ethyl 2-cyclopentanone-l-carboxylate in THF affords the 1-ethynyl derivative in 71% isolated yield (equation 124)27. 

Phenyl lodonium Hydroxide.—These iodoso compounds are derivatives of the hypothetical base, CeHs—I(0H)2, phenyl iodonium hydroxide. When a solution of iodoso benzene is heated it decomposes as follows ... 

The typical primary vinylic substrate ( )-l-decenyl(phenyl)iodonium tetrafluor-oborate (11) displays unexpected reactivity under solvolytic conditions/ Its solvolysis was expected to be sluggish due to the instability of the possible primary vinyl cation intermediate, but it proceeded smoothly and as rapidly as that of the cyclohexenyl derivative 30 in alcoholic and aqueous solvents. However, the rates of solvolysis of 11 depend on the nucleophilicity of the solvent and not on the ionizing power. Both substitution (enol ether or aldehyde) and elimination products (19) are formed, in ratios which depend on the basicity of the medium (Scheme 46). 

Ochiai and coworkers have used these tandem Michael-carbene-insertion process in a nice synthesis of cyclopentene derivatives as illustrated by 69 and 70 using alkynyl(phenyl)iodonium salts (equation 31). Similarly, PhS02H addition to alkynyl(phenyl)iodonium salts in methanol results in the formation of e.g., 71 that, upon treatment with Et3N, gives both rearranged sulfone 72 and the cyclopentene 73 via the unsaturated carbene, as illustrated by the example in equation 32. 

Triplet sensitization of sulfonium salts proceeds exclusively by the homolytic pathway, and that the only arene escape product is benzene, not biphenyl or acetanilide. However, it is difficult to differentiate between the homolytic or heterolytic pathways for the cage reaction, formation of the isomeric halobiaryls. Our recent studies on photoinduced electron transfer reactions between naphthalene and sulfonium salts, have shown that no meta- rearrangement product product is obtained from the reaction of phenyl radical with diphenylsulfinyl radical cation. Similarly, it is expected that the 2- and 4-halobiaryl should be the preferred products from the homolytic fragments, the arene radical-haloarene radical cation pair. The heterolytic pathway generates the arene cation-haloarene pair, which should react less selectively and form the 3-halobiaryl, in addition to the other two isomers. The increased selectivity of 2-halobiaryl over 3-halobiaryl formation from photolysis of the diaryliodonium salts versus the bromonium or chloronium salts, suggests that homolytic cleavage is more favored for iodonium salts than bromonium or chloronium salts. This is also consistent with the observation that more of the escape aryl fragment is radical derived for diaryliodonium salts than for the other diarylhalonium salts. 

Likewise, the reaction of vinylzirconium derivatives 305 with (diacetoxyiodo)benzene followed by anion exchange affords alkenyl(phenyl)iodonium salts 306 stereoselectively with retention of configuration (Scheme 2.88) [442]. 

Fluoroalkyl(aryl)iodonium salts are the most stable and practically important class of alkyl(aryl)iodonium derivatives. The application of such salts as electrophilic fiuoroalkylating reagents was reviewed in 1996 by Umemoto [1017]. Perfluoroalkyl(phenyl)iodonium trifiates (FITS reagents) 764 are efficient perfluoroalky-lating reagents toward various nucleophiUe substrates, sueh as arenes, carbanions, alkynes, alkenes, carbonyl compounds, amines, phosphines and sulfides [1017]. Scheme 3.300 shows several representative examples of electrophilic perfluoroalkylations using FITS reagents. 

A particularly useful reagent in these carbenoid reactions is the highly soluble and reactive iodonium ylide 780 derived from malonate methyl ester and bearing an ortfw methoxy substituent on the phenyl ring [1059]. This reagent shows higher reactivity than common phenyliodonium ylides in the Rh-catalyzed cyclopropanation, C-H insertion and transylidation reactions under homogeneous conditions. Scheme 3.307 shows representative examples of the carbenoid reactions of ylide 780 [1059]. 

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