Palladium-catalyzed carbonylations proposed mechanism

A very promising synthesis of /3-lactones has been recently reported, involving the palladium-catalyzed carbonylation reaction of halogeno alcohols. For example, 3-phenyl-2-oxetanone was obtained in 63% yield from 2-phenyl-2-bromoethanol in DMF solution at room temperature under 1 atmosphere pressure of carbon monoxide (equation 115). A proposed mechanism, in which palladium metal inserts into the carbon-halogen bond, followed by insertion of a molecule of carbon monoxide into the carbon-palladium bond and then ring closure, fits kinetics data (80JA4193). 

In the metallic palladium-catalyzed carbonylation of olefins, some hydrogen sources are essential hydrogen halide and molecular hydrogen were found to be the most eflFective. The following sequence of reactions was proposed for the reaction mechanism of the ester and aldehyde formation catalyzed by palladium (23). The first step of the metallic palladium-catalyzed carbonylation seems to be the formation of a palladium-hydrogen bond by the oxidative addition of hydrogen chloride... 

Alkenyl substituents attached to aziridine ring carbons allow a palladium-catalyzed carbonyl-insertion reaction to occur, producing a /1-lactam (Scheme 46) <91SL91>. The proposed mechanism <93BMC2415> is based on an analogous reaction of vinyl epoxides <85JA6123>. Initial attack of palladium(O) on the optically active /ra .s-vinylaziridine (67) leads to the zr-allyl palladium complex... 

The mechanism of the Zn chloride-assisted, palladium-catalyzed reaction of allyl acetate (456) with carbonyl compounds (457) has been proposed [434]. The reaction involves electroreduction of a Pd(II) complex to a Pd(0) complex, oxidative addition of the allyl acetate to the Pd(0) complex, and Zn(II)/Pd(II) transmetallation leading to an allylzinc reagent, which would react with (457) to give homoallyl alcohols (458) and (459) (Scheme 157). Substituted -lactones are electrosynthesized by the Reformatsky reaction of ketones and ethyl a-bromobutyrate, using a sacrificial Zn anode in 35 92% yield [542]. The effect of cathode materials involving Zn, C, Pt, Ni, and so on, has been investigated for the electrochemical allylation of acetone [543]. 

The following mechanism was proposed for the carbonylation of olefin-palladium chloride complex (10). The first step is coordination of carbon monoxide to the complex. Insertion of the coordinated olefin into the palladium-chlorine bond then forms a -chloroalkylpalladium complex (IV). This complex undergoes carbon monoxide insertion to form an acylpalladium complex (V), as has been assumed for many metal carbonyl-catalyzed carbonylation reactions. The final step is formation of a )8-chloroacyl chloride and zero-valent palladium by combination of the acyl group with the coordinated chlorine. 

Carbonylphosphine complexes of zero-valent palladium are considerably less stable and more reactive than their Ni counterparts. Most common triphenyl-phosphine complexes of Pd are excellent catalysts for various carbonylation reactions of aryl iodides and bromides [15,129-131 ]. It is conceivable that the palladium-catalyzed alkoxycarbonylation of ArCl proceeds via a mechanism similar to that proposed for the analogous reactions of bromo- and iodoarenes (Scheme 5) [45,159,160,161]. 

By palladium (O)-catalyzed carbonylation of l,2-diaza-l,3-buta-dienes. Boeckman et al. (01OL3651) (Scheme 42) reported that stable l-(l,2-diphenylethenyl)-2-phenyldiazene 180 when treated with 10 or 1 mol% of Pd(Ph3P)4 or Pd(dppe)2 catalysts, respectively, in toluene under 1 or 2 atm of carbon monoxide, at room temperature or 100 °C for 0.25-30 h, afforded pyrazol-3-one 184 in excellent yields. Although no intermediates were detected, by analogy to the previously studied cyclopalladation of azobenzene, the mechanism shown in Scheme 42 was proposed. The mechanism involves formation of a cr-complex 181 between 180 and Pd(0)-catalyst, cycloaddition by n—>-n isomerization to... 

Scheme 8.31 Palladium-catalyzed oxidative carbonylative coupling of arylboronic acids with styrenes and proposed reaction mechanism...

Scheme 1.47 Proposed mechanism for the palladium-catalyzed a-arylation of carbonyl compounds.

The CO insertion into nitrite-substituted alkoxy-palladium bonds to give a Pd(COORONO)2 species followed by reductive elimination of dinitrite-substituted oxalate ester was proposed as a mechanism in this Pd-catalyzed carbonylation of alkane dinitrite (Scheme ll).[ ],[vo]... 

When studying the Pd-catalyzed reaction of a substituted aryl 2-iodophenylpropion-ate [65], Ung and Pyne observed exclusive formation of an aryl cinnamate (4). The mechanism proposed involves a palladium migration from the aryl position to the a-position of the carbonyl, which is homobenzylic, followed by subsequent (i-hydridc elimination. Note that the palladium intermediate after migration can potentially undergo either P-hydride elimination or arylation with the pendent electron-rich arene of the ester moiety, but only the product derived from P-hydride elimination is observed. 

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