Palladium catalysis Sonogashira reactions

The coupling of terminal alkynes with aryl or vinyl halides under palladium catalysis is known as the Sonogashira reaction. This catalytic process requires the use of a palladium(0) complex, is performed in the presence of base, and generally uses copper iodide as a co-catalyst. One partner, the aryl or vinyl halide, is the same as in the Stille and Suzuki couplings but the other has hydrogen instead of tin or boron as the metal to be exchanged for palladium. 

Monohgated oxazolines derived from commercially available 2-ethyl-2-oxazoUne can form trans-square-planar palladium complexes by simple treatment of this ligand with inorganic palladium salts in methanolic solutions (Scheme 6.15) [72]. The catalysis, when performed in pyrrolidine, gave a yield of 32%, which corresponded to a TON of 190. The Sonogashira reaction was carried out under aerobic conditions with no precautions to exclude moisture from the solvent or substrates. 

With the development of Buchwald-Hartwig amination reactions, the amine component of these indoles can also be introduced into these precursors via palladium catalysis [8]. As shown by Ackermann, this can be coupled with aryl halide alkynylation and cyclization to provide a one-pot, three-component synthesis of substituted indoles (Scheme 6.6) [9]. In this case, simple ortho-dihaloarene derivatives S were employed as starting materials, with Sonogashira coupling occurring at the more activated aryl-iodide bond, followed by selective coupling of various alkyl or arylamines. Alternatively, Zhao has recently demonstrated that amination can be performed on both bromoalkyne 6, followed by the aryl-bromide bond, to provide a route to 2-amidoindoles (Scheme 6.7) [10]. 

The coupling of terminal alkynes 25 with aryl or vinyl halides under palladium catalysis is known as the Sonogashira reaction. The catalytic process... 

The field of palladium catalysis is also progressing rapidly. The Tsuji-Trost and Mizoroki-Heck reactions have been mentioned earher, however other C-C coupling reactions (Miyaura-Suzuki, Sonogashira and Stille) are now extensively used in organic chemistry, and the search for non-polluting Sonogashira and Miyaura-Suzuki reactions is being actively pursued. 

The formation of C-C bonds is one of the important fields of synthetic organic chenustry. Modern methods are in the focus of scientists in academia and industry, often being connected to catalysis. Products based on catalysis represent more than 90% of the total amount of new compounds. Presently, palladium-catalysed reactions play a dominant role. For example, Mizoroki-Heck reactions, as well as Stille, Suzuki, Negishi, Kumada and Sonogashira couplings, are in the standard toolbox of organic chemists [1]. 

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