Olefin palladium-catalyzed

Catalytic formation of carbon-carbon bonds is a powerful tool for construction of complex molecular architectures, and has been developed extensively for applications in organic synthesis. Three main classes of carbon-carbon bond forming reactions have been studied in sc C02 carbonylation (with particular attention paid to the hydroformylation of a-olefins), palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions involving aromatic halides, and olefin metathesis. 

Palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions of organic halides with olefins or dienes (R. F. Heck, 1979) are broad in scope and simple to carry out. Anhydrous conditions or any special technique are not required and most functional groups are tolerated. 

Oxidative Carbonylation of Ethylene—Elimination of Alcohol from p-Alkoxypropionates. Spectacular progress in the 1970s led to the rapid development of organotransition-metal chemistry, particularly to catalyze olefin reactions (93,94). A number of patents have been issued (28,95—97) for the oxidative carbonylation of ethylene to provide acryUc acid and esters. The procedure is based on the palladium catalyzed carbonylation of ethylene in the Hquid phase at temperatures of 50—200°C. Esters are formed when alcohols are included. Anhydrous conditions are desirable to minimize the formation of by-products including acetaldehyde and carbon dioxide (see Acetaldehyde). 

Compared with these methods, the palladium-catalyzed oxidation of 1-olefins described here is more convenient and practical. The industrial method of ethylene oxidation to acetaldehyde using PdCl2-CuCl 2-O2 original reaction of this type. The oxidation of various olefins has been carried out. ... 

Use of DMF as a solvent for the oxidation of l-o1efins has been reported by Clement and Selwitz. The method requires only a catalytic amount of PdCl2 and gives satisfactory yields under mild conditions. A small amount of olefin migration product is the only noticeable contaminant in the cases reported. The procedure can be applied satisfactorily to various 1-olefins with other functional groups. This useful synthetic method for the preparation of methyl ketones has been applied extensively in the syntheses of natural products such as steroids,macrolides, dihydrojasmone, and muscone. " A comprehensive review article on the palladium-catalyzed oxidation of olefins has... 

Heck reaction, palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions between organohalides or triflates with olefins (72JOC2320), can take place inter- or intra-molecularly. It is a powerful carbon-carbon bond forming reaction for the preparation of alkenyl- and aryl-substituted alkenes in which only a catalytic amount of a palladium(O) complex is required. 

The Heck reaction is considered to be the best method for carbon-carbon bond formation by substitution of an olefinic proton. In general, yields are good to very good. Sterically demanding substituents, however, may reduce the reactivity of the alkene. Polar solvents, such as methanol, acetonitrile, N,N-dimethylformamide or hexamethylphosphoric triamide, are often used. Reaction temperatures range from 50 to 160 °C. There are various other important palladium-catalyzed reactions known where organopalladium complexes are employed however, these reactions must not be confused with the Heck reaction. 

A synthetically useful virtue of enol triflates is that they are amenable to palladium-catalyzed carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions under mild conditions. When a solution of enol triflate 21 and tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)palladium(o) in benzene is treated with a mixture of terminal alkyne 17, n-propylamine, and cuprous iodide,17 intermediate 22 is formed in 76-84% yield. Although a partial hydrogenation of the alkyne in 22 could conceivably secure the formation of the cis C1-C2 olefin, a chemoselective hydrobora-tion/protonation sequence was found to be a much more reliable and suitable alternative. Thus, sequential hydroboration of the alkyne 22 with dicyclohexylborane, protonolysis, oxidative workup, and hydrolysis of the oxabicyclo[2.2.2]octyl ester protecting group gives dienic carboxylic acid 15 in a yield of 86% from 22. 

Yasuda S, Yorimitsu H, Oshima K (2008) Synthesis of aryliron complexes by palladium-catalyzed transmetalation between [CpFe(CO)2l] and aryl Grignard reagents and their chemistry directed toward organic synthesis. Organometallics 27 4025 027 Jonas K, Schieferstein L (1979) Simple route to Li- or Zn-metalated r -cyclopentadien-yliron-olefin complexes. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 18 549-550... 

Recent trend in the synthesis of olefinic pheromones is the use of transition metal-catalyzed cross coupling reaction for carbon-carbon bond formation. Scheme 8 summarizes a synthesis of the termite trail marker pheromone, (3Z,6Z)-3,6-dodecadien- l-ol (2) by Oehlschlager [19]. The key-step is the palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling of allylic chloride A and alkenylalane B. 

Catalysis and Synthesis in the Laboratory. Research on the practical applications of catalysis was not matched in the laboratory. We began a study of metal and non-metal catalyzed reactions early in our sonochemistry program. Our first project was to develop a convenient method of hydrogenating a wide range of olefins. We chose formic acid as our hydrogen source and found it to be effective. For example, with continuous irradiation, palladium catalyzed hydrogenations of olefins are complete in one hour(44). 

In 1979, the reaction of styrenyl and hexenyl halides with an alkali metal thiophenolate and ethanethiolate was reported (Equation (40))130 Reaction yields exceeded 90%, and the products retained the geometry of the starting olefin. In contrast to the stereospecificity of palladium-catalyzed couplings involving vinyl halides, nickel-catalyzed couplings of vinyl halides with thiolates gave mixtures of stereoisomeric products 131... 

Thus, [HRh(C0)(TPPTS)3]/H20/silica (TPPTS = sodium salt of tri(m-sulfophenyl)phopshine) catalyzes the hydroformylation of heavy and functionalized olefins,118-122 the selective hydrogenation of a,/3-unsaturated aldehydes,84 and the asymmetric hydrogenation of 2-(6 -methoxy-2 -naphthyl)acrylic add (a precursor of naproxen).123,124 More recently, this methodology was tested for the palladium-catalyzed Trost Tsuji (allylic substitution) and Heck (olefin arylation) reactions.125-127... 

Under microwave heating, the Heck olefinations were achieved in 30-60 min, as opposed to 10-40 h by conventional heating. The recyclable heterogeneous LDH-Pd(0) catalytic system circumvents the need to use expensive and air-sensitive basic phosphines as ligands in the palladium-catalyzed coupling of chloroarenes. This novel Mg-Al layered double-hydroxide (LDH) support in the catalytic system stabilizes the nanopalladium particles and also supplies adequate electron density to the anchored palladium(O) species and facilitates the oxidative addition of the deactivated electron-rich chloroarenes. 

Palladium catalyzed reaction of aryl halides and olefins provide a useful synthetic method for C-C bond formation reaction [171, 172], The commonly used catalyst is palladium acetate, although other palladium complexes have also been used. A sol-vent-free Heck reaction has been conducted in excellent yields using a household MW oven and palladium acetate as catalyst and triethylamine as base (Scheme 6.51) [173], A comparative study revealed that the longer reaction times and deployment of high pressures, typical of classical heating method, are avoided using this MW procedure. 

The Heck reaction, a palladium-catalyzed vinylic substitution, is conducted with olefins and organohalides or pseudohalides are frequently used as reactants [15, 16], One of the strengths of the method is that it enables the direct monofunctionalization of a vinylic carbon, which is difficult to achieve by other means. Numerous elegant transformations based on Heck chemistry have been developed in natural and non-natural product synthesis. Intermolecular reactions with cyclic and acyclic al-kenes, and intramolecular cyclization procedures, have led to the assembly of a variety of complex and sterically congested molecules. 

In most palladium-catalyzed oxidations of unsaturated hydrocarbons the reaction begins with a coordination of the double bond to palladium(II). In such palladium(II) olefin complexes (1), which are square planar d8 complexes, the double bond is activated towards further reactions, in particular towards nucleophilic attack. A fairly strong interaction between a vacant orbital on palladium and the filled --orbital on the alkene, together with only a weak interaction between a filled metal d-orbital and the olefin ji -orbital (back donation), leads to an electrophilic activation of the alkene9. 

The Fukuyama indole synthesis involving radical cyclization of 2-alkenylisocyanides was extended by the author to allow preparation of2,3-disubstituted derivatives <00S429>. In this process, radical cyclization of 2-isocyanocinnamate (119) yields the 2-stannylindole 120, which upon treatment with iodine is converted into the 2-iodoindole 121. These N-unprotected 2-iodoindoles can then undergo a variety of palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions such as reaction with terminal acetylenes, terminal olefins, carbonylation and Suzuki coupling with phenyl borate to furnish the corresponding 2,3-disubstituted indoles. 

Trost reported the synthesis of 1,4-dienes with ruthenium catalysis through regioselective carbometallation of alkynes with alkenes.51 Di- and trisubstituted olefins can also be obtained with arylboronic acids through an intermolecular process under rhodium,30 52 55 nickel,56 and palladium catalysis.57 Recently, Larock has reported an efficient palladium-catalyzed route for the preparation of tetrasubstituted olefins.58,59... 

Palladium-catalyzed cyclization of alkenes and alkynes were reported by Balme and co-workers.143 144 Intramolecular carbopalladation occurs to give polycyclic compounds. It has been shown that the nucleophile type has a large influence on the cyclization process. Both 5-exo- and 6-endo-cyclization are observed for substrates with nitrile (116 and 118) and ester (120, 122, and 124) substituents, respectively (Scheme 36). When a mixed nucleophile (CN and C02Me) is used, a mixture of 5-exo and 6-endo products is obtained. The chemoselectivity is controlled by the size of the nucleophile used. The stereochemistry of the initial double bond plays an important role on the stereoselectivity of the cyclization. (Z)-olefins (118 and 120) and (/. )-olefins (116 and 124) afford as- (119 and 121) and trans-cyclization products (117 and 123), respectively. 

An intramolecular palladium-catalyzed cycloisomerization of enyne 170 was used to access the antifungal agent, chokol C (Scheme 43).102 The choice of ligand and catalyst was essential to the efficiency of the Alder-ene reaction. Enone 171 was obtained as a single olefinic isomer resulting from migration of only Ha during the cycloisomerization reaction. 

Secondary phosphine oxides are known to be excellent ligands in palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions and platinum-catalyzed nitrile hydrolysis. A series of chiral enantiopure secondary phosphine oxides 49 and 50 has been prepared and studied in the iridium-catalyzed enantioselective hydrogenation of imines [48] and in the rhodium- and iridium-catalyzed hydrogenation functionalized olefins [86]. Especially in benzyl substituted imine-hydrogenation, 49a ranks among the best ligands available in terms of ex. 

Catalytic asymmetric hydrosilylation of prochiral olefins has become an interesting area in synthetic organic chemistry since the first successful conversion of alkyl-substituted terminal olefins to optically active secondary alcohols (>94% ee) by palladium-catalyzed asymmetric hydrosilylation in the presence of chiral monodentate phosphine ligand (MOP, 20). The introduced silyl group can be converted to alcohol via oxidative cleavage of the carbon-silicon bond (Scheme 8-8).27... 

Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Alkenylation of Cyclic Olefins... 

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