Palladium, allylic alkylation

Silyl enol ethers are other ketone or aldehyde enolate equivalents and react with allyl carbonate to give allyl ketones or aldehydes 13,300. The transme-tallation of the 7r-allylpalladium methoxide, formed from allyl alkyl carbonate, with the silyl enol ether 464 forms the palladium enolate 465, which undergoes reductive elimination to afford the allyl ketone or aldehyde 466. For this reaction, neither fluoride anion nor a Lewis acid is necessary for the activation of silyl enol ethers. The reaction also proceed.s with metallic Pd supported on silica by a special method[301j. The ketene silyl acetal 467 derived from esters or lactones also reacts with allyl carbonates, affording allylated esters or lactones by using dppe as a ligand[302]... 

Additions of carbon nucleophiles to vinylepoxides are well documented and can be accomplished by several different techniques. Palladium-catalyzed allylic alkylation of these substrates with soft carbon nucleophiles (pKa 10-20) proceeds under neutral conditions and with excellent regioselectivities [103, 104]. The sul-fone 51, for example, was cyclized through the use of catalytic amounts of Pd(PPh3)4 and bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane (dppe) under high-dilution conditions to give macrocycle 52, an intermediate in a total synthesis of the antitumor agent roseophilin, in excellent yield (Scheme 9.26) [115, 116]. 

Chiral phosphinous amides have been found to act as catalysts in enantio-selective allylic alkylation. Horoi has reported that the palladium-catalyzed reaction of ( )-l,3-diphenyl-2-propenyl acetate with the sodium enolate of dimethyl malonate in the presence of [PdCl(7i-allyl)]2 and the chiral ligands 45 gave 46 in 51-94% yields and up to 97% ee (Scheme 38). It is notorious that when the reaction is carried out with the chiral phosphinous amide (S)-45a, the product is also of (S) configuration, whereas by using (R)-45b the enantiomeric (R) product is obtained [165]. 

In the present chapter, we focus on the catalyst nature in solution using well-defined metal NPs as catal 4 ic precursors it means, soluble (or dispersible) heterogeneous pre-catalysts, as stated by Finke [6]. Some experiments described in the literature concerning the distinction between homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts are discussed (see Section 3), followed by a particular case studied by us with regard to the catalyst nature in the allylic alkylation reaction, using preformed palladium NPs as catalytic precursors (see Section 4). 

In 1999, Ikeda et al. reported a new type of sulfur-oxazoline ligands with an axis-fixed or -unfixed biphenyl backbone prepared in good yields by coupling reactions of methoxybenzene derivatives substituted with a chiral oxazoline and a sulfur-containing Grignard reagent. These ligands were subsequently evaluated for the test palladium-catalysed asymmetric allylic alkylation... 

Moreover, a few chiral ferrocenylsulfur-imine ligands were investigated in the palladium-catalysed asymmetric allylic alkylation of 1,3-diphenylpropenyl acetate and cyclohexenyl acetate with dimethyl maionate (Scheme... 

One of the main applications of dendrimers is in catalysis allowing easy recycling of the homogeneous catalyst by means of nanofiltration. Carbosilane dendrimers functionalized with diphenylphosphine groups at the periphery have been synthesized and characterized. Palladium complexes of these dendrimers have been used as catalysts in the allylic alkylation reaction. These dendrimeric catalysts can be used in a continuous process using a membrane reactor.509... 

Monoanions derived from nitroalkanes are more prone to alkylate on oxygen rather than on carbon in reactions with alkyl halides, as discussed in Section 5.1. Methods to circumvent O-alkylation of nitro compounds are presented in Sections 5.1 and 5.4, in which alkylation of the a.a-dianions of primary nitro compounds and radial reactions are described. Palladium-catalyzed alkylation of nitro compounds offers another useful method for C-alkylation of nitro compounds. Tsuj i and Trost have developed the carbon-carbon bond forming reactions using 7t-allyl Pd complexes. Various nucleophiles such as the anions derived from diethyl malonate or ethyl acetoacetate are employed for this transformation, as shown in Scheme 5.7. This process is now one of the most important tools for synthesis of complex compounds.6811-1 Nitro compounds can participate in palladium-catalyzed alkylation, both as alkylating agents (see Section 7.1.2) and nucleophiles. This section summarizes the C-alkylation of nitro compounds using transition metals. 

Allylic carbonates are better electrophiles than allylic acetates for the palladium-catalyzed allylic alkylation.77 Reaction of Eq. 5.54 shows the selective allylic alkylation of a-nitro ester with allylic carbonates without affecting allylic acetates.78... 

Wong and co-workers have prepared various quaternary cx-nitro-cx-methyl carboxylic acid esters by the palladium-catalyzed allylic alkylation of a-nitropropionate ester (Eq. 5.59). The products can be kinetically resolved by using cx-chymotrypsin and are converted into optical active a-methyl cx-amino acids. Such amino acids are important due to the unique biological activity of these nonproteinogenic a-amino acids.82... 

Trost and co-workers have explored asymmetric transition metal-catalyzed allylic alkylations. Details on this subject have been well reviewed by Trost and others.90 With the use of asymmetric palladium-catalyzed desymmetrization of meso-2-ene-l,4-diols, cw-l,4-dibenzoy-loxy-2-cyclopentene can be converted to the enantiometrically pure cA-4-tert-butoxycar-bamoyl-l-methoxycarbonyl-2-cyclopentene.91 The product is a useful and general building block for synthesis of carbocyclic analogs of nucleosides as presented in Scheme 5.12. 

Asymmetric synthesis of tricyclic nitro ergoline synthon (up to 70% ee) is accomplished by intramolecular cyclization of nitro compound Pd(0)-catalyzed complexes with classical C2 symmetry diphosphanes.94 Palladium complexes of 4,5-dihydrooxazoles are better chiral ligands to promote asymmetric allylic alkylation than classical catalysts. For example, allylic substitution with nitromethane gives enantioselectivity exceeding 99% ee (Eq. 5.62).95 Phosphi-noxazolines can induce very high enatioselectivity in other transition metal-catalyzed reactions.96 Diastereo- and enantioselective allylation of substituted nitroalkanes has also been reported.9513... 

Allyl acetates are more commonly used as electrophiles for the palladium-catalyzed allylic alkylation than allylic nitro compounds.20 However, the reaction of allylic nitro compounds has found wider applications. Allylic nitro compounds are readily available by nitration of alkenes. The regio- and stereoselective introduction of electrophiles and nucleophiles into alkenes is possible as outlined in Eq. 7.19. In fact, this strategy is applied to the synthesis of terpenoids.21... 

The asymmetric allylic alkylation (AAA) reaction has been adapted for use with pyrrole nucleophiles <06JACS6054>. For example, treatment of pyrrole 55 and cyclopentene 56 with a palladium catalyst in the presence of a chiral additive gave pyrrole 57 in up to 92% ee. The latter was elaborated into piperazinone-pyrrole natural product, agelastatin A 94. 

A variety of triazole-based monophosphines (ClickPhos) 141 have been prepared via efficient 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of readily available azides and acetylenes and their palladium complexes provided excellent yields in the amination reactions and Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reactions of unactivated aryl chlorides <06JOC3928>. A novel P,N-type ligand family (ClickPhine) is easily accessible using the Cu(I)-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition reaction and was tested in palladium-catalyzed allylic alkylation reactions <06OL3227>. Novel chiral ligands, (S)-(+)-l-substituted aryl-4-(l-phenyl) ethylformamido-5-amino-1,2,3-triazoles 142,... 

Scheme 6.50 Palladium- and molybdenum-catalyzed asymmetric allylic alkylations.

Equation 11.37 Asymmetric palladium-catalyzed allylic alkylation (BSA = N,0-bis(trimethylsilyl)acetamide). 

Figure 6.18. Palladium catalysed allylic alkylation using fluorinated ligands.[60, 61]...

Enantio- and diastereoselective syntheses of a variety of heterocycles were accomplished by combining the ruthenium-catalyzed Alder-ene reaction with a palladium-catalyzed asymmetric allylic alkylation (AAA) (Scheme 7). For the AAA, y>-nitrophenol was found to function as a suitable leaving group and yet was stable to the Alder-ene conditions. Extensive solvent studies were performed to determine the best conditions for the one-pot procedure. 

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