Olefinations palladium® bromide

With Pd(0) generated in situ, the oxidative addition of aryl bromide 102 to Pd(0) proceeds to form Pd(II) intermediate 104. Migratory insertion of 104 then occurs to furnish the cyclized indoline intermediate 105. Subsequent reductive elimination of 105 takes place in a cis fashion, giving rise to exo-cyclic olefin 107, which then tautomerizes spontaneously to the thermodynamically more stable indole 103. The reductive elimination by-product as a palladium hydride species 106 reacts with base, regenerating Pd(0) to close the catalytic cycle. 

In 1991, Mandai et al. reported that the palladium-catalyzed reaction of propargyl carbonates with olefins proceeded smoothly in DMF at 70 °C in the presence of triethylamine and potassium bromide to give vinylallenes in good yields [54], The active palladium catalyst was generated in situ from Pd(OAc)2 and PPh3. A typical example is shown in Scheme 3.19. 

The transition metal-catalyzed cyclopropanation of alkenes is one of the most efficient methods for the preparation of cyclopropanes. In 1959 Dull and Abend reported [617] their finding that treatment of ketene diethylacetal with diazomethane in the presence of catalytic amounts of copper(I) bromide leads to the formation of cyclopropanone diethylacetal. The same year Wittig described the cyclopropanation of cyclohexene with diazomethane and zinc(II) iodide [494]. Since then many variations and improvements of this reaction have been reported. Today a large number of transition metal complexes are known which react with diazoalkanes or other carbene precursors to yield intermediates capable of cyclopropanating olefins (Figure 3.32). However, from the commonly used catalysts of this type (rhodium(II) or palladium(II) carboxylates, copper salts) no carbene complexes have yet been identified spectroscopically. 

When the metallic additive to the intermediate 374 was zinc dihalide (or another Lewis acid, such as aluminum trichloride, iron trichloride or boron trifluoride), a conjugate addition to electrophilic olefins affords 381 . In the case of the lithium-zinc transmetallation, a palladium-catalyzed Negishi cross-coupling reaction with aryl bromides or iodides allowed the preparation of arylated componnds 384 ° in 26-77% yield. In addition, a Sn2 allylation of the mentioned zinc intermediates with reagents of type R CH=CHCH(R )X (X = chlorine, bromine) gave the corresponding compounds 385 in 52-68% yield. ... 

Palladium-catalyzed arylation of the electron-rich olefin bntyl vinyl ether has been accomplished in the ionic liquid l-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate using as the arylating agents aryl iodides and bromides instead of the commonly used, but commercially unavailable and expensive, aryl triflates. The reaction proceeds with high efficiency and remarkable regioselectivity, leading almost exclnsively to substitution by various aryl groups at the olefinic carbon a to the heteroatom of butyl vinyl ether (Xu et ak, 2001). 

The bisamides and bisesters provide two different families of benzocyclobu-tene monomers and polymers derived from bromobenzocyclobutene 2. Heck and coworkers have demonstrated that aromatic bromides and iodides react with olefins in the presence of a palladium catalyst to afford products where the vinyl group is directly bonded to the aromatic ring [40,42,43], This technology has been used with 4-bromobenzocyclobutene 2 as the starting aromatic halide,in order to prepare more highly functional bis- and monobenzocyclobu-tenes (Fig. 4)... 

Arylation of olefins can also be achieved312 by treatment with an arylpalladium reagent that can be generated in situ by several313 methods (1) by treatment of an aryl bromide with a palladium-triarylphosphine complex (ArBr —> ArPdBr") 114 (2) by treatment of an aryl iodide315 with palladium acetate316 in the presence of a base such as tributylamine or... 

A nonclassical substrate for the Heck reaction is 2,3-epoxycyclohexanone. The reactivity of this molecule under Heck coupling conditions is most likely attributed to its in situ isomerization to 1,2-cyclohexanedione. The 1,2-diketone subsequently reacts with aryl bromides as an olefin via the enol tautomer. Thus, within 5 to 30 min of directed microwave heating of the aqueous PEG mixture, up to 13 different C3-arylations were conducted using less than 0.05 mol % palladium acetate and no phosphine ligand (Scheme 12) [51]. 

Over 35 years ago, Richard F. Heck found that olefins can insert into the metal-carbon bond of arylpalladium species generated from organomercury compounds [1], The carbopalladation of olefins, stoichiometric at first, was made catalytic by Tsutomu Mizoroki, who coupled aryl iodides with ethylene under high pressure, in the presence of palladium chloride and sodium carbonate to neutralize the hydroiodic acid formed (Scheme 1) [2], Shortly thereafter, Heck disclosed a more general and practical procedure for this transformation, using palladium acetate as the catalyst and tri-w-butyl amine as the base [3], After investigations on stoichiometric reactions by Fitton et al. [4], it was also Heck who introduced palladium phosphine complexes as catalysts, enabling the decisive extension of the ole-fination reaction to inexpensive aryl bromides [5],... 

Lipshutz and colleagues presented recently palladium-catalyzed direct coupling reactions of alkyl iodides and vinyl bromides or iodides catalyzed by 1 mol% Pd(amphos)Cl2 in the presence of zinc and TMEDA in a biphasic aqueous/poly-(ethylene glycol tocopheryl sebacate) reaction medium [198], Internal olefins were obtained in 51-95% yield. For aryl-substituted (Aj-vinyl bromides, retention of double bond geometry was observed, while different degrees of isomerization occurred for (Z)-isomers, which may indicate the intervention of a radical addition process in the course of the coupling process. Alkyl-substituted (Z)-vinyl halides were transformed in contrast with retention of alkene geometry. Aryl halides also reacted [199],... 

Ellman utilized the Suzuki coupling twice between a support-bound vinyl bromide and an alkyl 9-BBN derivative in a solid-phase synthesis of E- and F-series prostaglandins. The Suzuki reaction was performed in situ, with the hydroboration of a terminal olefin being followed by the palladium-mediated step. This sequence is attractive in library synthesis because of the wide range of suitable commercially available alkenes. The inspiration behind this chemistry was the solution-phase work of Johnson and Braun, where the couplings of 35 with 2-iodo-4-(silyloxy)cyclopent-2-enone 36 went well at room temperature with PdCljCdppO-AsPhj as catalyst (Scheme 41). The modular chemistry demonstrated in this paper was clearly amenable to adaptation to a solid-phase strategy. 

Aryl halides which are rather inert in usual organic reactions can undergo reactions by means of palladium catalysts. Thus, styrene and stilbene derivatives are obtained by reaction of olefins with aryl bromides at 125 °C using Pd(0Ac)2 (1 mol%) and tri-(o-tolyl)phosphine (2 mol%)83. The palladium-catalyzed vinylic substitution reaction is applicable to a variety of heterocyclic bromides including pyridine, thiophene, indole, furan, quinoline and isoquinoline84. Thus, reaction of 3-bromopyri-dine with l-(3-butenyl)phthalimide at 100 °C gives l-[4-(3 -pyridyl)-3-butenyl]-phthalimide (yield of mixed amine 57%, selectivity 68%) at 100 °C. This phthalimide is subsequently converted to nornicotine (188) (Scheme 59). The reaction of acrylic... 

In 1976, Hegedus et al. described the synthesis of indoles using a Pd-assisted intramolecular amination of olefins, which tolerated a range of functionalities [8a, 114]. For example, the requisite o-allylaniline 119 was prepared in high yield by the reaction of 5-methoxy-carbonyl-2-bromoaniline with n-ally I nickel bromide. Addition of 119 to a suspension of stoichiometric PdCl2(CH3CN)2 in THF produced a yellow precipitate (the putative intermediate 121), which upon treatment with Et, N gave rise to indole 120 and deposited metallic palladium. 

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