Kinetic isotope effects alkenylation

Palladium-catalyzed room-temperature >rtfe>-alkenylations of anilides have been recently reported, employing benzoquinone as a stoichiometric oxidant. A kinetic isotope effect kn/koof 3 points to a slow C-H functionalization step. Electron-rich acetanilides react faster whereas anilines are unreactive (Equation (138)).120... 

Stereochemical and kinetic analyses of the Brpnsted acid-catalysed intramolecular hydroamination/deuterioamination of the electronically non-activated cyclic alkene (13) with a neighbouring sulfonamide nucleophile have been found to proceed as an anh-addition (>90%) across the C=C bond to produce (15). No loss of the label was observed by and NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) spectroscopies and mass spectrometry (MS). The reaction follows the second-order kinetic law rate = 2 [TfOH] [13] with the activation parameters being = 9.1 0.5 kcal moP and = -35 5 cal moP An inverse a-secondary kinetic isotope effect of d/ h = (1-15 0.03), observed for (13) deuteration at C(2), indicates a partial CN bond formation in the transition state (14). The results are consistent with a mechanism involving concerted, intermolecular proton transfer from an N-protonated sulfonamide to the alkenyl C(3) position coupled with an intramolecular anti-addition by the sulfonamide group. ... 

Although no mechanistic rationale for the arylation reaction was put forward, kinetic isotope effect studies suggested that this transformation was not occurring via a SnAr mechanism. This seminal publication led to other C—H activation methodologies for the synthesis of C2-heteroarylated products,C2-alkenylated products, and C2-alkylated pyridine derivatives. ... 

A study has been reported regarding the ruthenium-catalysed reaction of benza-mides with alkynes, which yields ort/io-alkenylated derivatives. Here, the mechanism is likely to involve rate-limiting metalation, followed by alkyne insertion to form intermediates such as (63) which on protonolysis yield the alkenylated products. An allylic carbon-carbon double bond has also been used as a coordination site in palladium-catalysed alkenylation reactions, as shown in Scheme 3. Here measurement of kinetic isotope effects suggests that coordination of the palladium with the allylic double bond occurs before palladation to give (64). Insertion of the alkene into the carbon-palladium bond gives (65) and -hydride elimination " leads to the product... 

Kinetics of the acid hydrolysis of A-alkenyl derivatives of phenoxazine, phenoth-iazine, and carbazole in aqueous dioxane suggest an ASe2 mechanism, based on the activation parameters and isotope effects. ... 

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