Palladium catalysis nucleophilic

AryT3,4-fused furans 63 are synthesized in moderate to good yields from propargyl nucleophiles and a-sulfonyl a,p-unsaturated ketones under palladium catalysis conditions... 

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The triflate 125 is formed from the hydroxy precursor (Equation 131) and undergoes a variety of nucleophilic substitution processes <2006TL4437>, including Suzuki and Stille couplings (Equations 132 and 133, respectively). Amination of 125 with aliphatic amines occurs under thermal conditions, using either conventional or microwave heating (Equation 134), but the reactions of 125 with less reactive amines require palladium catalysis (Equation 135). 

Several new leaving groups have been discovered recently which merit special discussion. Allyl sul-fones, surprisingly, function as substrates for palladium catalysis.86 As the sulfone group had previously been proven to be able to stabilize an adjacent carbanion, this result allowed allyl sulfones now to be considered as synthons for 1,1- and 1,3-dipoles (equation 10). That is, the allyl sulfone can be used alternately as a nucleophile and electrophile, greatly extending its synthetic utility. 

Aniline nucleophiles readily participate in this type of ring-closure process under palladium catalysis (Pd(OAc>2, BINAP, and CS2CO3 in hot toluene) without resort to protecting groups when an aryl iodide is used <2005T61>. 

Clarke recently published the first microwave-accelerated Hiyama coupling [163,164]. It was noted that the availability and nontoxic attributes of the organosilicon reactants make them very attractive in synthesis, but their low nucleophilicity limits their potential. Microwave heating allowed aryl bromides and activated aryl chlorides to react under palladium catalysis using an electron-rich N-methyl piperazine/cyclohexyl phosphine ligand (Scheme 75). A vinylation reaction with vinyltrimethoxysilane was also reported [164],... 

While the major use for palladium catalysis is to make carbon-carbon bonds, which are difficult to make using conventional reactions, the success of this approach has recently led to its application to forming carbon-heteroatom bonds as well. The Overall result is a nucleophilic substitution at a vinylic or aromatic centre, which would not normally be possible. A range of aromatic amines can be prepared direcdy from the corresponding bromides, iodides, or triflates and the required amine in the presence of palladium(O) and a strong alkoxide base. Similarly, lithium thiolates couple with vinylic triflates to give vinyl sulfides provided lithium chloride is present. 

Among common carbon-carbon bond formation reactions involving carbanionic species, the nucleophilic substitution of alkyl halides with active methylene compounds in the presence of a base, e. g., malonic and acetoacetic ester syntheses, is one of the most well documented important methods in organic synthesis. Ketone enolates and protected ones such as vinyl silyl ethers are also versatile nucleophiles for the reaction with various electrophiles including alkyl halides. On the other hand, for the reaction of aryl halides with such nucleophiles to proceed, photostimulation or addition of transition metal catalysts or promoters is usually required, unless the halides are activated by strong electron-withdrawing substituents [7]. Of the metal species, palladium has proved to be especially useful, while copper may also be used in some reactions [81. Thus, aryl halides can react with a variety of substrates having acidic C-H bonds under palladium catalysis. 

Oxygen heterocycles can be prepared in several different ways via palladium catalysis, even though oxygen is a poorer nucleophile than nitrogen. For example, p, y-alkynic ketones are cyclized to fhrans in the presence of Pd(dba)2 and PPhs (equation 96). 

The acylation of the mildly nucleophilic organostarmanes was first reported by Migita in 1977 through the use of palladium catalysis. However, the reported conditions were harsh and of limited... 

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