Phenylacetylene, oxidative coupling

Oxidative coupling, phenylacetylene to. diphenyldiacetylene with cupric acetate, 46,39... 

Phenylacetylene, oxidative coupling to diphenyldiacetylene, 45, 39 partial reduction to styrene using palladium catalyst, 46, 90 reaction with sodium hypobromite to yield phenylbromocthyne, 45, 86 Phenylacetyl fluoride, 46, 6... 

Scheme 1 Structure of hyperbranched polyglycerol and oxidative coupling reaction of phenylacetylene...

Table 1 Results of oxidative coupling reaction of phenylacetylene using different amine-CuCl complexes ...

Ito and his coworkers have reported that palladium-catalyzed oxidative coupling reactions of Grignard reagents in the presence of V-substituted isocyanide dichloride afford diynes (equation 17). Isocyanide dichloride may serve as a reoxidant of the palladium catalyst in this sequence via a catalytic cycie. In addition Kiji and his coworkers have described the oxidative coupling of phenylacetylene by a Pd-Cu catalyst in the presence of 4-iodo-(3//) phenothiazin-3-one. ... 

The oxidative coupling reaction of terminal alkynes is critically dependent on the water concentration in the reaction mixture (see Section 2.5.2). Since water is produced during the reaction, careful elimination of it may be required. Challa and Meinders have demonstrated that the polymer catalyst derived from copper(II) chloride and either N,/V-dimethylbenzylamine or N,/V-dimethylaminomethylated atactic polystyrene (37) provides an extra protection of the catalytic copper complexes against water in the coupling reaction of phenylacetylene (equation 23), resulting in a higher reaction rate than the low molecular weight catalyst. 

For Glaser oxidative coupling of phenylacetylene to Campbell and Eglinton used cupric acetate in pyridine-methanol. The deep blue suspension became green when refluxed (1 hr.). The cooled mixture was acidified with stirring and cooling and the product was collected by ether extraction. 

A number of syntheses of di- and polyacetylenes has been reported. 1-Iodo-l-alkynes couple with terminal acetylenes under palladium-copper catalysis to give 1,3-diynes thus y-iodopropargyl alcohol and phenylacetylene afford compound 30. Oxidative coupling of 1 -alkynes to yield symmetrical 1,3-diynes is brought about by air and copper(I) chloride in the presence of N, A -tetramethylethylenediamine (equation Trialkylsilyl sub-... 

To date, only one report has referred to the direct allqmylation of indoles under aerobic conditions. In 2010, Li and co-workers described a palladium-catalyzed oxidative coupling of 1,3-dimethylindoles with phenylacetylenes." Using a buffer system composed of 20 mol% cesium carbonate and 2 equiv. pivalic acid at 80 °C, the desired cross-coupling products were obtained in moderate-to-good yields (Scheme 9.21). 

Tandem cyclization/3-substitution can be achieved starting with o-(trifluoro-acetamido)phenylacetylenes. Cyclization and coupling with cycloalkenyl trif-lates can be done with Pd(PPh3)4 as the catalyst[9]. The Pd presumably cycles between the (0) and (II) oxidation levels by oxidative addition with the triflate and the reductive elimination which completes the 3-alkenylation. The N-protecting group is removed by solvolysis under the reaction conditions, 3-Aryl groups can also be introduced using aryl iodides[9]. 

Oxidative polymerization of trans-bis-deprotected 79 under Hay coupling conditions [54] yielded, after end-capping with phenylacetylene, the high-melting and readily soluble oligomers 80a-e with the poly (triacetylene) backbone [87,106] (Scheme 8). Poly(triacetylene)s [PTAs,-(C=C-CR=CR-C=C) -] are the third class of linearly conjugated polymers with a non-aromatic allcarbon backbone in the progression which starts with polyacetylene [PA,... 

Dipolar cycloaddition reaction of trimethylstannylacetylene with nitrile oxides yielded 3-substituted 5-(trimethylstannyl)isoxazoles 221. Similar reactions of (trimethylstannyl)phenylacetylene, l-(trimethylstannyl)-l-hexyne, and bis (trimethylsilyl)acetylene give the corresponding 3,5-disubstituted 4-(trimethyl-stannyl)isoxazoles 222, almost regioselectively (379). The 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction of bis(tributylstannyl)acetylene with acetonitrile oxide, followed by treatment with aqueous ammonia in ethanol in a sealed tube, gives 3-methyl-4-(tributylstannyl)isoxazole 223. The palladium catalyzed cross coupling reaction of... 

A totally different route based on dehydrogenation of a saturated polymer precursor was introduced by Francois et al. [49] (Scheme 2.9). The method is based on anionic copolymerization of cyclohexadiene with styrene, followed by oxidation with chloranil. Due to possible coupling of two styrene (or two cyclohexadiene) molecules, a block copolymer, containing oligo(phenylene vinylene) units separated by oligo(phenylacetylene) and oligo(phenylene) blocks, is obtained. To the best of our knowledge, it was, so far, used only in the synthesis of phenyl-substituted PPV 10. 

Coupling of terminal acetylenes with 3-chloropyridazines has been performed, using the Pd -Cu -EtjNH system, giving 3-(alkynyl)pyridazines in yields of up to 78% phenylacetylene gives (90) with 3-chloropyridazine 1-oxide but only gives tars with the isomeric 2-oxide/ 3-(Alkynyl)cinnolines have been similarly prepared from 3-iodo- and 3-bromo-cinnolines, and attempts to couple alkenes have been reported it is not unusual, in this type of reaction, to obtain small amounts of homo-coupling products i.e. biaryls), but an excellent yield of 3,3 -bicinnolinyl (81%) was obtained from 3-bromo-cinnoline and styrene. 

Coupling is an important reaction of alkynes that leads to di-ynes. It occurs under a variety of condi-tions,32 but is particularly important when alkynylcopper derivatives are involved. Two classical alkyne coupling reactions involve copper derivatives. In the Glaser reaction,33 where an alkyne such as phenylacetylene reacts with basic cupric chloride (CuCl2), subsequent air oxidation gives a diyne (in this case 26 in 90% yield). 

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