Palladium-catalyzed amination aryl halides

Palladium-catalyzed aminations of aryl halides is now a well-documented process [86-88], Heo et al. showed that amino-substituted 2-pyridones 54 and 55 can be prepared in a two-step procedure via a microwave-assisted Buchwald-Hartwig amination reaction of 5- or 6-bromo-2-benzyloxypyri-dines 50 and 51 followed by a hydrogenolysis of the benzyl ether 52 and 53, as outlined in Fig. 9 [89]. The actual microwave-assisted Buchwald-Hartwig coupling was not performed directly at the 2-pyridone scaffold, but instead at the intermediate pyridine. Initially, the reaction was performed at 150 °C for 10 min with Pd2(dba)3 as the palladium source, which provided both the desired amino-pyridines (65% yield) as well as the debrominated pyridine. After improving the conditions, the best temperature and time to use proved... 

Figure 1 Chelating and hemilabile ligands used in palladium-catalyzed amination of aryl halides.

This chapter will cover the recent developments in palladium-catalyzed amination of aryl halides and sulfonates. The nickel-catalyzed process requires much higher catalyst loads and has a more narrow substrate scope, and will not be reviewed [70,71]. The first sections will cover the development of different palladium catalysts for the... 

Palladium-Catalyzed Amination of Aryl Halides Using Amine Substrates... 

Indoles, pyrroles and carbazoles themselves are suitable substrates for palladium-catalyzed amination. An initial study of this reaction using DPPF-ligated palladium as catalyst showed that these reactions occurred readily with electron-poor aryl halides. With unactivated aryl bromides, the reaction with pyrrole or indole resulted in good yield, but reaction times were long and the temperature was 120 °C. Thus, an improved catalyst system was necessary for reactions to occur in a more general fashion and with temperature- or base-sensitive substrates. 

Stoichiometric palladium-mediated cyclization was used in natural product synthesis by Boger a number of years ago, as was noted in the introduction. More recently, an intramolecular palladium-catalyzed amination of a heteroaromatic halide has been used as a step in the synthesis of an a-carboline natural product analog [146]. As discussed above, the diphenylhydrazone arylation can also be used for nitrogen heterocycle synthesis [140]. 

Until recently, alkylphosphines had been used less often than arylphosphines in crosscoupling chemistry. However, several studies pointed to the potential of such ligands in the palladium-catalyzed amination of aryl halides. Alkylphosphines in combination with palladium catalyst precursors have now been shown to allow milder conditions for the amination of aryl bromides, to improve yields with acyclic secondary amines, to give high turnover numbers, and to induce mild aminations of inexpensive aryl chlorides and tosylates. 

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