Metal Domino coupling

Transition-metal catalysts play an ever-increasing and important role in modem chemistry [3]. Numerous transition-metal-catalyzed coupling reactions have been developed and applied in the total synthesis of natural products, such as the Suzuki reaction, the Negishi reaction, the Heck reaction, and many others [4]. Interestingly, the power of transition-metal catalysts is even more visible in the area of domino reactions, where terms such as palladium walking show the value of transition metals in bond formations. 

Transition metal-catalyzed transformations are of major importance in synthetic organic chemistry [1], This reflects also the increasing number of domino processes starting with such a reaction. In particular, Pd-catalyzed domino transformations have seen an astounding development over the past years with the Heck reaction [2] - the Pd-catalyzed transformation of aryl halides or triflates as well as of alkenyl halides or triflates with alkenes or alkynes - being used most often. This has been combined with another Heck reaction or a cross-coupling reaction [3] such as Suzuki, Stille, and Sonogashira reactions. Moreover, several examples have been published with a Tsuji-Trost reaction [lb, 4], a carbonylation, a pericyclic or an aldol reaction as the second step. 

Domino transition metal-catalyzed processes can also start with a cross-coupling reaction most often, Suzuki, Stille and Sonogashira reactions are used in this context They can be combined with another Pd-catalyzed transformation, and a number of examples have also been reported where a pericydic reaction, usually a Diels-Alder reaction, follows. An interesting combination is also a Pd-catalyzed borina-tion followed by a Suzuki reaction. 

For the domino transition metal-catalyzed synthesis of macrocycles, conditions must be found for two distinct cross-coupling reactions, of which one is inter- and the other intramolecular. For this purpose, Zhu s group [115] has developed a process of a Miyura arylboronic ester formation followed by an intramolecular Suzuki reaction to give model compounds of the biphenomycin structure 6/1-232 containing an endo-aryl-aryl bond. 

Keywords Allylic substitution CH activation Cross-coupling Cycloisomerization Domino reactions Metallation Multicomponent reactions Palladium catalysis... 

Palladium catalyzed cyanation [71] has recently received a lot of attention in the literature as a cross-coupling which employs cheap, commercially available metal cyanides and incorporates the versatile and synthetically useful cyano group. The development of a domino ort/ o-functionalization/cyanation reaction represents an advance in palladium catalysis as there are very few, if any palladium-catalyzed domino cyanation reactions. The development of the domino ortfto-functionalization/ cyanation [72, 73] by Lautens has led to some of the most significant discoveries of highly functionalized alkyl halides as coupling partners, as well as further development in the selectivity and scope of o/t/to-arylation chemistry. 

In domino transition-metal-catalysed processes, cross-coupling reactions can also be nsed as the starting transformation. Most often, Suzuki, Stille and Sonogashira reactions are employed in this context. They can be combined with a Mizoroki-Heck reaction and other palladium-catalysed transformations. 

In summary, we have summarized representative examples of transition-metal-catalyzed carbonylative domino reactions. In the area of carbonylations, palladium, rhodium, and cobalt are still the main actors. The abihty of palladium catalysts in carbonylative cross-coupling, rhodium catalysts in carbonylative C-H activation, and cobalt catalyst in carbonylative reactions with unsaturated bonds is impressive. 

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