Palladium chloromethylation

A Michaelis-Arbusov rearrangement followed by a Wittig-Horner reaction is involved in preparation of the distyrylbenzene derivative 11.37, as shown in Scheme 11.15. Precautions must be taken in the first stage to minimise formation of the carcinogenic by-product bis(chloromethyl) ether 11.16. The stilbene bis-ester 11.38 can be made by a similar procedure, or alternatively by the reaction of ethyl acrylate with 4,4 -dibromostilbene in the presence of a palladium-based catalyst (Scheme 11.16), a synthesis that yields the required trans form of the brightener. 

An additional indication of the mildness of the cyclization is provided by the synthesis of the chiral tetrahydroisoquinoline-3-carboxylic acid (294) (72HCA15) in the presence of hydrogen and palladium-on-charcoal the jV-methyl derivative was obtained. Acetaldehyde gave a mixture of diastereoisomers in which the cis isomer (295) predominated (95 5). Unstable aldehydes can sometimes be generated in situ, as when the phenylglycidate (296) replaces the much less stable phenylacetaldehyde (66T(S8)129) acetals, enol ethers and chloromethyl methyl ethers have also been used. The mild conditions also allow the isolation of 4-hydroxytetrahydroisoquinolines (297) (75H(3)311). A review is available listing syntheses of 4-oxytetrahydroisoquinolines (73AHC(15)99). 

Metal-Halogen Compounds. An unusual example of the addition of a metal halide to a conjugated diene has been reported. The complex formed from palladium chloride and butadiene has been shown to be a dimer of 1-chloromethyl-7r-allylpalladium chloride, (85). Whether this is a true insertion reaction or some type of ionic reaction has not been determined, but its close analogy with the olefin-palladium chloride insertion reaction mentioned above would suggest an insertion mechanism for the diene reaction also. 

Alkyl ethers of sucrose have been prepared by reaction with long-chain alkyl halides to provide mixtures of regioisomers and products of different degree of substitution.82,83 A similar reaction with chloromethyl ethers of fatty alcohols provides formaldehyde acetals.84,85 Alkenyl ethers of various carbohydrates, and notably of sucrose, can also be obtained by palladium-catalyzed telomerization of butadiene (Scheme 6).86 88 Despite a low-selectivity control, this simple and clean alternative to other reactions can be carried out in aqueous medium when sulfonated phosphines are used as water-soluble ligands. 

Triphenylamine derivatives are known to be efficient hole transport materials and are widely used in organic light-emitting devices. Thelakkat et al. reported the synthesis of a 2,2-bipyridine ligand capped with polyfvinyl-triphenylamine) at both ends.97 The polymer chain was synthesized by the atom transfer radical polymerization of 4-bromostyrene using 4,4-bis (chloromethyl)bipyridine as the initiator (Scheme 18). The bromide groups were then replaced by diphenylamine in the presence of palladium catalyst. Polymer 33 was then obtained by the metalation reaction. 

Methoxy-2-tetralone was methylated by the Stork method to yield 337. The latter was treated with sodium hydride and benzyl chloromethyl ether to furnish compound 338 in 60% yield. Ketalization of 338 afforded the ketal 339 which was hydrogenated with palladium on calcium carbonate to give the alcohol 340 in a yield of 92%. The alcohol 340 was oxidized with chromium trioxide in pyridine to afford the aldehyde 341 in quantitative... 

Reaction of dichloro(2,2,Ar,A-tetramethyl-3-buten-l-amine)palladium-(II) with CH2N2 gives the carbene insertion product, a-chloro-A-(chloromethyl)-c/,c-(2,2,jV,7V-tetramethyl-3-buten-l-amine(palladium(II)) (56), together with analogous ethoxymethyl and methyl complexes (127). 

Similarly, 56 reacts with sodium methoxide to give small quantities of the methoxymethyl analog of 56. In the same way, treatment of dichloro(2,2-dimethyl-3-buten-l-yl methyl sulfide)palladium(II) with CH2N2 gives the expected chloromethyl complex and a cyclopropanation product. 

An extension of this strategy consists of the use19b,c of an allyl halide as an acceptor of the IV-carboxylate ion species. Thus, by treatment of A-silyl(chloromethyl)allylammes 3 in an ScN reaction20 using silver fluoride in the presence of palladium(II) as the catalyst, 2-oxazolidi-nones are obtained in high yield and trans selectivity ranging from 89 11 to 97 3. The use of palladium(II) results in rate enhancement and increased yields. 

Deuterolysis of 3-chloro-2-chloromethyl-5-methoxypyrazine over 5% palladium on alumina in the presence of sodium isopropoxide in 2-propanol afforded 3-deutero-2-monodeuteromethyl-5-methoxypyrazine (687) and methylation of the bromomagnesium derivative from 2-bromomethyl-3,5,6-trimethylpyrazine with methyl sulfate or methyl iodide gave 2-ethyl-3,5,6-trimethylpyrazine (330). 

Alkylation of hydrazine with a, 3-unsaturated carbonyl derivatives or carbonyl derivatives with a leaving group in the p-position provides pyrazole derivatives. For example, treatment of the tosylate (77), obtained from L-serine, with anhydrous hydrazine gives racemic pyrazolidinone (78). It appears that py-razolidinone (78) or one of the intermediates suffers base-catalyzed racemization (equation 32). Starting from P-lactam (79) seven-membered cyclic hydrazine (80) has been formed by ring closure in an unusually high (84%) yield (equation 33). Reaction of ( ir-allyl)palladium complex (81) with dimethyl-hydrazine produces exocyclic diene (82) in a modest (29%) yield, but this is still more efficient than the reaction of 2,3-bis(chloromethyl)butadiene (83) with dimethylhydrazine (equation 34). ... 

The PflN ligands 10a,b as well as the corresponding palladium complexes were synthesized as depicted in Fig. 2.14. Treatment of 2-(chloromethyl)pyridine with one equivalent of bis(2-methylphenyl)phosphane in the presence of potassium tert-butylate yielded ligand 10 a which was directly converted into the palladium diiodide complex 11b. Purification of 11b was achieved by column chromatography on sihca. 

The free ligand 10a was regenerated by treating 11b with an access of potassium cyanide. Reaction of 10 a with CODPdClMe afforded the chloromethyl palladium complex Ila. In square planar PAN chloromethyl palladium complexes two... 

Palladium-catalyzed alkoxycarbonylation enables synthesis of a variety of heterocyclic esters that are otherwise not easily prepared. 5-Bromopyrimidine was transformed into 5-ethoxycarbonylpyrimidine in quantitative yield employing the Pd-catalyzed alkoxycarbonylation. The alkoxycarbonylation of 2-chloro-4,6-dimethoxypyrimidine, in turn, led to benzyl 4,6-dimethoxypyrimidine-2-carboxylate (240), whereas alkoxycarbonylation of 2-(chloromethyl)-4,6-dimethoxypyrimidine provided pyrimidinyl-2-acetate 242 [119]. 4,6-Dimethoxypyrimidines 240 and 242 are both important intermediates for the preparation of antihypertensive and antithrombotic drugs. 

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