Nickel cross-coupling reactions

Alkyl- and aryl-pyridazines can be prepared by cross-coupling reactions between chloropyridazines and Grignard reagents in the presence of nickel-phosphine complexes as catalysts. Dichloro[l,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)propane]nickel is used for alkylation and dichloro[l,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane]nickel for arylation (78CPB2550). 3-Alkynyl-pyridazines and their A-oxides are prepared from 3-chloropyridazines and their A-oxides and alkynes using a Pd(PPh3)Cl2-Cu complex and triethylamine (78H(9)1397). 

Optically active amine-thioether ligands (492) have been investigated in nickel-catalyzed asymmetric cross-coupling reactions of Grigard reagents.1338... 

Cross-coupling reactions of vinyl zirconocenes of general structure 41, mainly using group 10 metal catalysts, can be smoothly effected to give a variety of vinyl selenide-con-taining materials, which are amenable to further elaboration through nickel-catalyzed... 

The Kumada cross-coupling reaction (also occasionally known as the Kharasch cross-coupling reaction) is a nickel- or palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction of a Grignard reagent with an organic halide, triflate, etc. 

Other successful examples of catalysts containing NHC ligands are found in palladium- and nickel-catalyzed carbon-carbon bond formations. The catalyst development with these metals has focused in particular on Heck-type reactions, especially the Mizoroki-Heck reaction itself [Eq. (42)] and various cross coupling reactions [Eq. (43)], e.g., the Suzuki-Miyaura reaction ([M] = and the Kumada-Corriu reaction ([M] = MgBr). " Related reactions like the Sonogashira coupling [Eq. (44)]326-329 Buchwald-... 

Carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions are one of the most basic, but important, transformations in organic chemistry. In addition to conventional organic reactions, the use of transition metal-catalyzed reactions to construct new carbon-carbon bonds has also been a topic of great interest. Such transformations to create chiral molecules enantioselectively is therefore very valuable. While various carbon-carbon bond-forming asymmetric catalyses have been described in the literature, this chapter focuses mainly on the asymmetric 1,4-addition reactions under copper or rhodium catalysis and on the asymmetric cross-coupling reactions catalyzed by nickel or palladium complexes. 

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Kumada described nickel-catalyzed asymmetric cross-coupling reactions of 1-arylethylmagnesium chlorides with vinyl bromide in... 

Figure 3.49. Chiral ligands that exhibit high enantioselectivity in the nickel-catalyzed Grignard cross-coupling reaction of vinyl bromide (or chloride) with 1-phenylethylmagne-sium chloride.

Prenylaniline (945) required for the synthesis of (+ )-carquinostatin A [( )-278] (see retrosynthesis in Scheme 5.126) was obtained by a nickel-mediated cross-coupling reaction of the N-protected 4-bromoaniline 952 with bis[n-bromo(r -prenyl)nickel] (825) (646) (Scheme 5.128). 

Knochel and co-workers developed the Ni(acac)3-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction between polyfunctional primary iodoalkanes and a variety of primary diorganozinc compounds in the presence of w-trifluoromethylstyrene as a promoter. " The addition of this unsaturated promoter is required in order to coordinate to the nickel center and remove electron density from the metal atom, to facilitate the reductive elimination step. " " The scope of the reaction is extended, when Ni(acac)2 is used in the presence of BU4NI and fluorostyrene (Scheme With these... 

Hocek and coworkers studied the regioselectivity of the cross-coupling reaction between methyhnagnesium bromide and various dichloropurines. With 2,6- and 2,8-dichloropurines, it is possible to obtain the monomethylated product with an excellent regioselectivity (Scheme 33). It is important to notice that such a regioselectivity is not observed under palladium or nickel catalysis. 

The alkenylmagnesium species generated by the Fe-catalyzed arylmagnesiation can be trapped by electrophiles. For example, the cross-coupling reaction of the alkenyhnagne-sium species with an aryl halide is achieved with a nickel catalyst, giving a tetrasubstituted olefin 21 in good overall yield (Scheme 17). ... 

Bis[(dimethylisopropoxysilyl)methyl]zinc (74) has proven to be a valuable reagent in the nickel-catalysed cross-coupling reactions with alkenylsulfoximines, giving allylic silanes with complete retention of configuration. An X-ray crystal structure determination of 74 showed this compound to exist in the solid state as a coordination polymer (Figure 41). In 74, in addition to the two covalent Zn—C bonds [Zn—C(l) 1.953(7)... 

SCHEME 108. Nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions... 

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