Organoboranes, coupling

Some interesting developments concerning C-C bond formation using organoborane coupling reactions have been made. 9-Alkyl-9-BBN derivatives (144) react with aryl and benzyl halides in the presence of transition metal catalysts and carbon monoxide to give... 

Suzuki A (2004) Organoborane Coupling Reactions (Suzuki Coupling) ProcJpn Acad 80 359. 

Organoboranes are reactive compounds for cross-coupling[277]. The synthesis of humulene (83) by the intramolecular cross-coupling of allylic bromide with alkenylborane is an example[278]. The reaction of vinyiborane with vinyl-oxirane (425) affords the homoallylic alcohol 426 by 1,2-addition as main products and the allylic alcohol 427 by 1,4-addition as a minor product[279]. Two phenyl groups in sodium tetraphenylborate (428) are used for the coupling with allylic acetate[280] or allyl chloride[33,28l]. 

One of the newer and more fmitful developments in this area is asymmetric hydroboration giving chiral organoboranes, which can be transformed into chiral carbon compounds of high optical purity. Other new directions focus on catalytic hydroboration, asymmetric aHylboration, cross-coupling reactions, and appHcations in biomedical research. This article gives an account of the most important aspects of the hydroboration reaction and transformations of its products. For more detail, monographs and reviews are available (1—13). 

Moderate yields of acids and ketones can be obtained by paHadium-cataly2ed carbonylation of boronic acids and by carbonylation cross-coupling reactions (272,320,321). In an alternative procedure for the carbonylation reaction, potassium trialkylborohydride ia the presence of a catalytic amount of the free borane is utilized (322). FiaaHy, various tertiary alcohols including hindered and polycycHc stmctures become readily available by oxidation of the organoborane iatermediate produced after migration of three alkyl groups (312,313,323). 

ArSnRs, and with arylmercury compounds. Aryl triflates react with arylbo-ronic acids ArB(OH)2, or with organoboranes, in the presence of a palladium catalyst, to give the arene in what is called Suzuki couplingCyclopropyl groups can be attached to aromatic rings by this reaction. Even hindered boronic acids give good yields of the coupled product. 

Scheme 9.1. Homologation and Coupling of Organoboranes by Carbon Monoxide and Other One-Carbon Donors...

The regiospecific functionalization of the terminal alkyl group of simple amines or ethers with bis(pinacolato)-diborane leads to organoboranes. The latter have manifold applications in organic synthesis since the catalytic borylation process can be combined with a functional group transformation step, including Suzuki-Miyaura couplings, for the synthesis of elaborated molecules. Curiously, functionalization of the C-H atoms a to the heteroatom was not observed (Equation (22)). a... 

Trifluoropropene, 20 241-242 3-Trifluoroacety 1-17 -camphorate, 6 98 Triflates, cross-coupling of organoboranes with, 73 651 Triflic acid, 22 598 Tri-Flo separator, 76 634 Trifluoroacetylacetone molecular formula, 5 712t Trifluoroacetyl chloride... 

Oxidative nickel-catalyzed coupling of aldehydes and alkynes to generate allylic alcohols. Intermolecular and intramolecular examples are both effective, and the transmetalating agent (MR" ) may be an organosilane, organoborane, organozinc, or alkenylzirconium. ... 

Palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction of organoboranes with organic halides, triflates, etc. in the presence of a base (transmetalation is reluctant to occur without the activating effect of a base). For the catalytic cycle, see Kumada coupling on page 345. 

When vinylboronic acids are used as reactants, bases, especially Tl(OH)3, can accelerate the reaction.143 Scheme 8.11 gives a number of examples of coupling using organoborane reagents. 

C. Chen, K. Wilcoxen, C.Q. Fluang, N. Strack, J.R. McCarthy, New methods for the synthesis of fluoro olefins via the palladium catalyzed cross-coupling reaction of 1-fluorovinyl halides with organoboranes and organostannanes, J. Fluor. Chem. 101 (2000) 285-290. 

In equation 7.1. a 4-chloropyridine was coupled with diethyl(3-pyridyl)borane.3 The reaction was run in aqueous THF in the presence of potassium carbonate. The role of the base is to facilitate the transmetalation step through the formation of a borate ion, as organoboranes are usually not nucleophilic enough to transfer their organic moiety onto the palladium. An alternate function of the base is to increase the electrophilicity of the palladium through exchange of the halide to carbonate. 

Johnson, C. R. Braun, M. P. A Two-Step, Three-Component Synthesis of PGE1 Utilisation of a-Iodoenones in Pd(0)-Catalysed Cross-Couplings of Organoboranes, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1993,775, 11014-11015. 

Cross-coupling reactions between organoboranes and heteroaryl halides are effectively catalyzed by Pd(0) in the presence of a base. Couplings in simple pyrimidines are illustrated by the reaction between 2-chloropyrimidine and 2- or 3-thiophene- and selenophene-boronic acids which give the corresponding 2-substituted pyrimidines (921) (Scheme 72). In 2,4-dichloro- or 2,4-dibromo-pyrimidine it is the 4-halo substituent which is the more reactive. 

The Suzuki Coupling, which is the palladium-catalysed cross coupling between organoboronic acid and halides. Recent catalyst and methods developments have broadened the possible applications enormously, so that the scope of the reaction partners is not restricted to aryls, but includes alkyls, alkenyls and alkynyls. Potassium trifluoroborates and organoboranes or boronate esters may be used in place of boronic acids. Some pseudohalides (for example triflates) may also be used as coupling partners. 

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