Organoboronic acids palladium complexes

Addition reactions of organoboronic acids to electron-deficient alkenes were found to be catalyzed by rhodium(i)931 or dicationic palladium(n) complexes.932,933 The reaction proceeding through the transmetallation to a transition metal has been proved to be a general technique for a wide range of selective carbon-carbon bond formation via 1,4-addition to a,/ -unsaturated ketones, aldehydes, esters, and amides, and the 1,2-addition to aldehydes and imines (Equation (217)).934... 

Finally, it should be mentioned that two years later, an enantioselective oxidative (boron) Heck-type reaction was reported by Jung and coworkers [32] for a dinuclear NHC-derived CNO-based pincer complex for which for the first time a Pd /Pd" mechanism was suggested to be operative with palladium pincer-type crosscoupling catalysts. Reaction mechanisms without a change of the palladium s oxidation state have never been proposed to be operative for Heck cross-couphng reactions, but have been shown to be operative for xylene-derived selenium-based pincer complexes and related systems in the cross-couphng of vinyl epoxides (and aziridines) with organoboronic acids [24d, 33]. 

Insertions of alkynes into palladium-hydride complexes have been reported to take place as part of catalytic cycles, resulting in circumstantial yet credible evidence for the occurrence of alkenylpalladium complexes. The first example of palladium-catalyzed hydroarylation of alkynes with organoboronic acids B(OH)2R has been given. The mechanistic interpretation based on labeling studies involves hydropalladation of the alkyne to give an intermediate alkenylpalladium(ii) species that reacts with the organoboronic acid (Scheme 11). Similar direct coupling reactions... 

The application of in situ-generated (alkoxy)palladium(II) species (Scheme 14.23) can be extended to reactions of a-carbonates with organoboron compounds. Crosscouplings of allenes 108 with aryl (or alkenyl) boron acids or their esters catalyzed by a palladium(O) complex afforded the 2-aryl(alkenyl)-l,3-butadienes 109 in excellent yields (Scheme 14.24) [53], The coupling reactions of 9-BBN-derived intermediates such as ester 111 can be accelerated by applying K3P04 as additive (Eq. 14.15). 

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