Metal-catalysed

TRANSITION METAL-CATALYSED CYCLIZATION OF A/-ALLYL-AND /V-PROPARGYL ANILINES... 

T. J. PuUukat, M. Shida, and R. E. Hoff, ia R. P. Quirk, ed.. Transition Metal Catalysed Polymerisations Mlkenes and Dienes, Harwood Academic Pubhshers, New York, 1983, p. 697. 

R. A. Sheldon and J. K. Kochi, Metal-Catalysed Oxidations of Organic Compounds, Academic Press, Inc., New York, 1981. 

Table 7.5 Catalytic and deactivating effects of ligands on metal-catalysed autoxidation of petroleum. (After Pedersen )...

Other convenient routes to carboranes, selected from the growing number of recently reported syntheses, are as follows. Monocarbon carboranes can be prepared in good yield by the transition-metal catalysed hydroboration of alkenes followed by thermal rearrangement of the intermediate product, c.gP" ... 

The transition metal catalysed addition of a hydridosilane to a multiply-bonded system is known as hydrosilylation (1). Under such conditions, alkynes undergo clear cis-addition, so providing one of the most direct routes to vinylsilanes (Chapter 3). Hydridosilanes also add to the carbonyl group of saturated aldehydes and ketones, to produce alkyl silyl ethers. Fot example, under suitable conditions, 4-t-butylcyclohexanone (2) can be reduced with a high degree of stereoselectivity. 

The chemical mechanisms of transition metal catalyses are complex. The dominant kinetic steps are propagation and chain transfer. There is no termination step for the polymer chains, but the catalytic sites can be activated and deactivated. The expected form for the propagation rate is... 

The role of the rhodium is probably two-fold. Initially due to its Lewis acidity it reversibly forms a complex with the nitrile nitriles are known to complex to the free axial coordination sites in rhodium(II) carboxylates as evidenced by the change of colour upon addition of a nitrile to a solution of rhodium(II) acetate, and by X-ray crystallography. Secondly the metal catalyses the decomposition of the diazocarbonyl compound to give a transient metallocarbene which reacts with the nitrile to give a nitrile ylide intermediate. Whether the nitrile ylide is metal bound or not is unclear. 

Chiral amines and diamines are readily available substrates for the synthesis of ligands for transition metal-catalysed reactions since they can easily be transformed into chiral ureas and thioureas. Therefore, several groups have prepared chiral symmetrical ureas and thioureas, dissymmetrical ureas and thioureas, amino-urea and thiourea derivatives. Finally polyureas and non-soluble polythioureas were also prepared and tested as ligands for asymmetric catalysis. 

Substituted thioureas have been used as ligands for transition-metal catalysed reactions and as organocatalysts for organic synthesis. These points will be discussed in Sects. 4 and 5. We first present some aspects of the coordination modes of ureas and thioureas. 

Urea hydrogen peroxide adduct (UHP) was employed in metal-catalysed asymmetric epoxidation [98] and Baeyer-Villiger oxidation [99,100]. Since the presence of urea does not change the course of the reaction, this will not be described here. Conversion of epoxides to halohydrins with elemental... 

Beside the oxidative and transition-metal-catalysed condensation reactions discussed above, several other syntheses were developed to generate PPP and PPP derivatives. 

The metal catalysed hydroboration and diboration of alkenes and alkynes (addition of H-B and B-B bonds, respectively) gives rise to alkyl- or alkenyl-boronate or diboronate esters, which are important intermediates for further catalytic transformations, or can be converted to useful organic compounds by established stoichiometric methodologies. The iyn-diboration of alkynes catalysed by Pt phosphine complexes is well-established [58]. However, in alkene diborations, challenging problems of chemo- and stereo-selectivity control stiU need to be solved, with the most successful current systems being based on Pt, Rh and An complexes [59-61]. There have been some recent advances in the area by using NHC complexes of Ir, Pd, Pt, Cu, Ag and Au as catalysts under mild conditions, which present important advantages in terms of activity and selectivity over the established catalysts. 

CM products from vinylhalides are highly desirable especially because of the possible use in metal catalysed coupling reactions. Johnson and co-workers, performed detailed studies of the possible deactivation pathways [161]. The Fischer-carbene complexes of the vinyl halides have an increased stabihty compared to their alkylidene counterparts and the Fischer carbenes may be deactivated either by migration of the phosphine or by elimination of HX leading to a carbide. 

A central focus in modem organic synthesis has been the development of highly efficient catalytic processes for the syntheses of natural and unnatural compounds of medicinal interest or intermediates useful for functional materials. A particularly attractive approach is to apply transition metal catalysed cyclisation reactions for the transformation of simple starting materials into monocyclic, bicyclic and polycyclic scaffolds that can be further elaborated into specific targets. 

Transition metal catalysed cycloisomerisation of unsaturated systems is a powerful synthetic tool for the access of a wide range of heterocyclic and carbocyclic motifs [30], The use of NHCs as ligands for transition metal cycloisomerisation catalysts has been extensively studied [7],... 

Transition metal catalysed cross-coupling reactions of organometalUc reagents containing Zn, Si, Mg, Sn or B with organic electrophiles in the presence of group 8-10 metals, notably Ni and Pd, are routinely the method of choice, both in academia and industry, for the preparation of C-0, C-S, C-H, C-N and C-C bonds [1]. 

The Mizoroki-Heck reaction is a metal catalysed transformation that involves the reaction of a non-functionalised olefin with an aryl or alkenyl group to yield a more substituted aUcene [11,12]. The reaction mechanism is described as a sequence of oxidative addition of the catalytic active species to an aryl halide, coordination of the alkene and migratory insertion, P-hydride elimination, and final reductive elimination of the hydride, facilitated by a base, to regenerate the active species and complete the catalytic cycle (Scheme 6.5). 

In the context of NHC/metal catalysed cross-coupling reactions, the only example of a Hiyama reaction was reported by Nolan using an in situ protocol by mixing Pd(OAc)j and IPr HCl for the formation of the catalyst. Activated aryl bromides and chlorides, such as 2-chloropyridine, were coupled with phenyl and vinyl-trimethoxysilane in good yields [123] (Scheme 6.39). 

The widespread use of aryl boronic acids or aryl boronates in various metal-catalysed C-C bond-forming reactions has created a substantial demand for these versatile nncleophiles. A general procedure for the preparation of these compounds, based on a NHC/Pd catalysed coupling, has been reported by Fiirtsner and co-workers nsing aryl chlorides and the tetraalkoxy diboron derivative 27 as conpling partners. Very good yields were obtained in several cases especially when electron poor aryls were employed [169]. Milder reaction conditions can be achieved when diazonium salts are used instead of chlorides [170] (Scheme 6.51). 

Transition metal-catalysed reactions have emerged as powerful tools for carbon-carbon (C-C) bond formation [1], Cross-coupling reactions (Suzuki-Miyaura, Mizoroki-Heck, Stille, etc.) are recognised to be extremely reliable, robust and versatile. However, some other catalysed arylation reactions have been studied and have been reported to be very efficient [2]. In recent years, A -heterocyclic carbenes (NHC) have been extensively studied and their use as ligands for transition-metal catalysis has allowed for the significant improvement of many reactions [3]. This chapter highlights the use of NHC-bearing complexes in those arylation reactions. 

M-NHC catalysts in this area. Metal catalysed carbonylation also provides an alternative synthetic ronte to the prodnction of materials that traditionally reqnire highly toxic precnrsors, like phosgene. This section discnsses carbonylation of aryl hahdes, oxidative carbonylation of phenolic and amino componnds, carbonylation of aryl diazoninm ions, alcohol carbonylation, carbonylative amidation, and copolymerisation of ethylene and CO. 

The ability of enzymes to achieve the selective esterification of one enantiomer of an alcohol over the other has been exploited by coupling this process with the in situ metal-catalysed racemisation of the unreactive enantiomer. Marr and co-workers have used the rhodium and iridium NHC complexes 44 and 45 to racemise the unreacted enantiomer of substrate 7 [17]. In combination with a lipase enzyme (Novozyme 435), excellent enantioselectivities were obtained in the acetylation of alcohol 7 to give the ester product 43 (Scheme 11.11). A related dynamic kinetic resolution has been reported by Corberdn and Peris [18]. hi their chemistry, the aldehyde 46 is readily racemised and the iridium NHC catalyst 35 catalyses the reversible reduction of aldehyde 46 to give an alcohol which is acylated by an enzyme to give the ester 47 in reasonable enantiomeric excess. 

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