Palladium catalysts allylic arylation

Alkenylboranes (R2C=CHBZ2 Z — various groups) couple in high yields with vinylic, alkynyl, aryl, benzylic, and allylic halides in the presence of tetra-kis(triphenylphosphine)palladium, Pd(PPh3)4, and a base to give R C CHR. 9-Alkyl-9-BBN compounds (p. 1013) also couple with vinylic and aryl halides " as well as with a-halo ketones, nitriles, and esters.Aryl halides couple with ArB(IR2 ) species with a palladium catalyst. ... 

The Sn-allyl bond (but not Sn-alkyl, Sn-vinyl, Sn-benzyl, or Sn-aryl) reacts with C02 in the presence of a palladium catalyst to give a tin buteneoate. A mechanism can be envisaged which involves the formation of the Sn-Pd-allyl structure, which undergoes C02 insertion to give Sn-Pd-OCO-allyl, followed by reductive elimination of the tin carboxylate (Equation (131)).345... 

After the initial demonstration of stoichiometric nucleophilic attack on 7i-allyl ligands, catalytic allylic substitution reactions were pursued. In 1970, groups from Union Carbide [3, 4], Shell Oil [5], and Toray Industries [6] published or patented examples of catalytic allylic substitution. All three groups reported allylic amination with palladium catalysts. The Toray Industries report also demonstrated the exchange of aryl ether and ester leaving groups, and the patent from Shell Oil includes catalysts based on rhodium and platinum. 

A similar approach was taken for the synthesis of 45 by Miyaura. " Shaughnessy and Booth synthesized the water-soluble alkylphosphine 46, and found it to provide very active palladium catalysts for the reaction of aryl bromides or chlorides with boronic acids. The more sterically demanding ligand 47 was shown to promote the reactions of aryl chlorides with better results than 46. Najera and co-workers recently reported on the synthesis of di(2-pyridyl)-methylamine-palladium dichloride complexes 48a and 48b, and their use in the coupling of a variety of electrophiles (aryl bromides or chlorides, allyl chlorides, acetates or carbonates) with alkyl- or arylboronic acids very low catalyst loadings at Palladium-oxime catalysts 8a and 8b) have also been developed. In conjunction with... 

A prototypical study for this section has been obtained as early as in 1983 for carbonylative cross-coupling of the mixture of aryl iodide and alkyl iodide in the presence of Zn metal and palladium catalyst. This system apparently works due to differences of reactivity of aryl versus alkyl iodide toward metallation by Zn. Further studies were rather scarce to involve only preformed functionalized alkylzincs. Carbonylative cross-coupling of functionalized organozinc reagents with allylic esters and GO (1 atm) can be carried out in THF in the presence of HMPA, which suppresses side-reactions (Scheme 4). ... 

Instead of quenching with deuterium chloride, the intermediary organomonozinc compound can be used as a new nucleophile. Not only allylic halide but also alkenyl or aryl halide can be used as the first electrophile with bis(iodozincio)methane (3). In Scheme 23, examples for sequential coupling are summarized. In the case of coupling with bromoalkene, a nickel catalyst is more effective than a palladium catalyst. 

The effects of different solvents and palladium catalyst ligands on the allylic alkylation of aryl a-cyano esters have been investigated 133 up to 55% ee has been obtained in the presence of (-)-sparteine in THF at room temperature. 

Ethylene reacted with iodonium salts in the presence of a palladium catalyst and a base to afford directly 1,2-bis arylated products (stilbenes). Styrene underwent arylation under similar conditions [44], Allylic cyclic carbonates were efficiently phenylated by diphenyliodonium tetrafluoroborate because of the mild conditions, no ring opening occurred, as was the case when iodobenzene was used. 

The reaction of allylic alcohols and aryl halides in the presence of a palladium catalyst has been used in the past to prepare various 0-arylal-dehydes. The procedure described here is essentially that of Heck and Melpolder.3 A similar reaction has been carried out with bromobenzene and 2-methyl-2-propen-l-ol in hexamethylphosphoric triamide (HMPT) as solvent with sodium bicarbonate as base. A variety of other bases have also been used.4 2-Methyl-3-phenylpropanal has been prepared by reacting palladium acetate and phenylmercuric acetate with 2-methyl-2-propen-l-ol.5... 

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