Palladium hydrogen elimination

As reported in Scheme 1 the process involves a series of steps. The alkylpalladium species 1 forms through oxidative addition of the aromatic iodide to palladium(O) followed by noibomene insertion (4-7). The ready generation of complex 2 (8-11) from 1 is due to the unfavourable stereochemistry preventing P-hydrogen elimination from 1 (12). Complex 2 further reacts with alkyl halides RX to form palladium(IV) complex 3 (13-15). Migration of the R group to the... 

The first palladium-catalyzed formation of aryl alkyl ethers in an intermolecular fashion occurred between activated aryl halides and alkoxides (Equation (28)), and the first formation of vinyl ethers occurred between activated vinyl halides and tin alkoxides (Equation (29)). Reactions of activated chloro- and bromoarenes with NaO-Z-Bu to form /-butyl aryl ethers occurred in the presence of palladium and DPPF as catalyst,107 while reactions of activated aryl halides with alcohols that could undergo /3-hydrogen elimination occurred in the presence of palladium and BINAP as catalyst.110 Reactions of NaO-/-Bu with unactivated aryl halides gave only modest yields of ether when catalyzed by aromatic bisphosphines.110 Similar chemistry occurred in the presence of nickel catalysts. In fact, nickel catalysts produced higher yields of silyl aryl ethers than palladium catalysts.108 The formation of diaryl ethers from activated aryl halides in the presence of palladium catalysts bearing DPPF or a CF3-subsituted DPPF was also reported 109... 

The first step in the cycle, analogous to the cross-coupling reactions, is the oxidative addition of an aryl (vinyl) halide or sulfonate onto the low oxidation state metal, usually palladium(O). The second step is the coordination of the olefin followed by its insertion into the palladium-carbon bond (carbopalladation). In most cases palladium is preferentially attached to the sterically less hindered end of the carbon-carbon double bond. The product is released from the palladium in a / -hydrogen elimination and the active form of the catalyst is regenerated by the loss of HX in a reductive elimination step. To facilitate the process an equivalent amount of base is usually added to the reaction mixture. 

Vinyl substitution of primary or secondary allylic alcohols with aryl halides usually produces 3-aryl aldehydes or ketones, respectively. The reaction is believed to involve an addition of the intermediate arylpalladium halide to die double bond, placing the aryl group mainly on the more distant carbon from the hydroxy group, followed by palladium hydride elimination, a reverse readdition and another elimination with a hydrogen atom on the carbon bearing the hydroxy group. The product is probably a ir-com-plex of the enol which ultimately either dissociates or collapses to a a-complex with palladium on the... 

C-H transformation is achieved by cyclometallation by use of a unique catalytic system which involves the in-situ formation of a palladacycle [1]. Our work in this field takes advantage of the stability toward /3-hydrogen elimination of as,exo-aryl-norbomylpalladium complexes formed by a sequence of oxidative addition of an aryl halide to palladium(O) and stereoselective insertion of norbornene into the... 

Scheme 2 shows the mechanism generally accepted for the catalytic arylation of olefins with aryl iodides in the presence of a tertiary phosphine-coordinated palladium catalyst and a base (4). Oxidative addition of aryl iodide (Arl) to a Pd(0) species (A), which is most commonly generated from palladium diacetate and a tertiary phosphine ligand, forms an arylpalladium iodide complex (B). Coordination of olefin on B followed by insertion of the coordinated olefin into the Pd-Ar bond forms a a-alkylpalladium species (C), which undergoes p-hydrogen elimination reaction to give the arylation... 

Scheme 6 shows the two possible modes for coordination of 2,3-dihydrofuran to the [PdPh (R)-BINAP ]+ species. As suggested from the molecular model in Figure 1, dihydrofuran may coordinate to the palladium center more easily in mode (a) than (b). The olefin-coordination in mode (a) followed by olefin-insertion and p-hydrogen elimination reactions forms the phenylation product having (/ -configuration, that is the observed configuration in major regioisomer 2 in the actual catalytic reactions. 

Two studies have been conducted that outline the effects of ligand steric and electronic properties on the relative rates for reductive elimination of amine and P-hydrogen elimination from amides. One study focused on the amination chemistry catalyzed by P(o-C6H4Me)3 palladium complexes [111], while the second focused on the chemistry catalyzed by complexes containing chelating ligands [88]. 

The transition metal catalyzed synthesis of arylamines by the reaction of aryl halides or tri-flates with primary or secondary amines has become a valuable synthetic tool for many applications. This process forms monoalkyl or dialkyl anilines, mixed diarylamines or mixed triarylamines, as well as N-arylimines, carbamates, hydrazones, amides, and tosylamides. The mechanism of the process involves several new organometallic reactions. For example, the C-N bond is formed by reductive elimination of amine, and the metal amido complexes that undergo reductive elimination are formed in the catalytic cycle in some cases by N-H activation. Side products are formed by / -hydrogen elimination from amides, examples of which have recently been observed directly. An overview that covers the development of synthetic methods to form arylamines by this palladium-catalyzed chemistry is presented. In addition to the synthetic information, a description of the pertinent mechanistic data on the overall catalytic cycle, on each elementary reaction that comprises the catalytic cycle, and on competing side reactions is presented. The review covers manuscripts that appeared in press before June 1, 2001. This chapter is based on a review covering the literature up to September 1, 1999. However, roughly one-hundred papers on this topic have appeared since that time, requiring an updated review. 

The reactivities of metallacycles obtained from the same substrate with different metals can vary dramatically for example, in contrast to nickel, the palladacyles obtained from butadiene mainly convert into open-chain dimers as a consequence of the greater tendency of palladium to undergo p-hydrogen elimination. 

The existence of a free carbonium ion such as VII in a strongly solvating medium is highly improbable. Only if VII could exist in association with the palladium could decomposition to vinyl acetate be expected to occur with a reasonable degree of frequency, in competition with the reaction with acetate to form ethylidene diacetate. Similar results have been reported in the Wacker acetaldehyde synthesis when D2O is used as the solvent (25). Stern (54) has reported results in which 2-deuteropropylene was used as substrate in the reaction. Based on assumed /J-acetoxyalkylpalladium intermediates, on the absence of an appreciable isotope effect in the proton-loss step, and on the product distribution observed, excellent agreement between calculated (71%) and observed (75%) deuterium retention was obtained. Several problems inherent in this study (54) have been discussed in a recent review (I). Hence, considerable additional effort must be expended before a clear-cut decision can be made between a simple / -hydrogen elimination and a palladium-assisted hydride shift in this reaction. 

Fortunately, we can postulate a plausible decomposition route from the known chemistry of Pd (II) alkyls. Pd (II) with a stabilizing ligand, such as phosphine, forms methylpalladium(II), but alkyls with a -hydrogen are unstable (4). The reason for this instability is not solvolytic decomposition but probably )3-hydrogen elimination to give olefin and apparently an unstable palladium (II) hydride, which decomposes to Pd(0) and H". 

The oxidative addition to palladium reagents proceeds readily with 1-haloalkenes at room temperature. However, the oxidative addition reactions of halides other than vinyl or aryl usually are very sluggish. Moreover, alkyl-Pd(II)-X complexes in which the alkyl moiety contains an sp -bonded hydrogen at the [3-position may undergo rapid dehydropalladation by. syn- 3-hydrogen elimination, generating the hydridopalladium complex and a double bond. Thus, the substrates used for the oxidative addition reaction are usually restricted to vinyl and aryl halides and triflates. 

Phosphines that are tightly chelated to the metal center often achieve high selectivity of secondary over tertiary amine products in reactions of primary alkylamines with unhindered aryl halides. The chelation helps prevent competing /3-hydrogen elimination of the aryl palladium amido intermediate (vide infra). Additionally, the greater steric hindrance of bisphosphine palladium complexes, when compared to mono phosphine palladium complexes, prevents diarylation. Some ligands originally introduced by... 

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