Palladium Stille cross-coupling

The late Professor J. K. Stille pioneered the development of a very effective and versatile palladium-mediated C-C bond forming method - the palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling of organic electrophiles with organostannanes.48 This process continues to enjoy much success in organic synthesis because it proceeds in high yields under mild reaction conditions and because it tolerates a... 

Stille cross coupling reactions usually proceed under mild neutral conditions. 2-Substituted thiazoUnes can be obtained by the cross coupling reaction of 2-bromothiazolines with various tributylstannyl compounds. Previous attempts at a palladium mediated coupling of 2-trimethylstannylthiazoUne led to only decomposition of the substrate <96TL4857>. 

Palladium(0)-catalyzed coupling reactions - i. e. the Heck and Sonogashira reactions, the carbonylative coupling reactions, the Suzuki and Stille cross-coupling reactions, and allylic substitutions (Fig. 11.1) - have enabled the formation of many kinds of carbon-carbon attachments that were previously very difficult to make. These reactions are usually robust and occur in the presence of a wide variety of functional groups. The reactions are, furthermore, autocatalytic (i.e. the substrate regenerates the required oxidation state of the palladium) and a vast number of different ligands can be used to fine-tune the reactivity and selectivity of the reactions. 

A convenient route for the preparation of yne-allenes was recently described by Saalfrank et al. [19]. Products 29a/b were formed by Stille cross-coupling of allenyl bromides 27a/b with alkynylstannanes such as 28 (Scheme 14.9). Allenyl phospho-nates such as 30 were also suitable substrates in palladium-catalyzed couplings with propargylstannane 31 (Eq. 14.1). Bisstannylated acetylene 33 as alkyne component furnished the expected yne-bisallene 34 in reasonable yield, but without any diaster-eoselectivity (meso-34 (R,R)-/(S,S)-34 =50 50) (Eq. 14.2). 

In spite of these first successful results, so far Stille cross-couplings have rarely reported employing functionalized stannylated allenes such as easily available donor-substituted allene 80a or allenyl esters such as 81 (Scheme 14.19) [19, 41, 42]. A single palladium-catalyzed annulation reaction with 80b as precursor leading to an a-pyrone derivative was reported [43],... 

The synthetic potential of palladium-mediated cross-coupling reactions (Heck, Suzuki, Stille, Sonogashira, Buchwald-Hartwig) led to the search for a practical synthesis of p-[ F]fluoroiodo- and p-[ F]fluorobromobenzene. p-[ F]Fluoroio-dobenzene (G, X = iodine) can be obtained in poor yield from p F]fluoride and a trimethylammonium precursor (P7). p-p F]Fluorobromobenzene can be prepared in a more reproducible way from 5-bromo-2-nitrobenzaldehyde (radiochemical yields > 70%). The synthesis involves a two-step procedure radiofluorination (F for NO2 substitution), then a catalysed decarbonylation [190,191]. Also very efficient is the one-step reaction of p F]fluoride with a suitable diaryliodonium salt (P6) giving >70% radiochemical yield [192-194]. 

Although the fate of the zinc ligands was not unambiguously ascertained, it appeared clearly that palladium to zinc transmetallation occurred prior to cyclization. Indeed, palla-dium-ene reactions are known but generally require higher temperatures and, when run in association with a subsequent Stille cross-coupling, trans- 1,2-disubstituted cyclopentanes were generated (equation 81)115,116. 

Stille, J. K. The Palladium-Catalysed Cross-Coupling Reactions of Organo-tin Reagents with Organic Electrophiles, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 1986, 25, 508-524. 

A convenient method for preparing vinylated or arylated pyridines on insoluble supports is palladium-mediated cross-coupling. The Heck, Suzuki, and Stille reactions have been successfully used for this purpose (Table 15.22). The conditions are essentially the same as those used for the related coupling of arenes (see Section 5.4). 

Palladium forms with both silylenes 83 and 84 silylene-bridged dinuclear complexes. The dinuclear Pd(0) complex 110 (R = Ph) was found to be active in Suzuki and Stille cross-coupling reactions <2001CC2372, 2002JOM141>. NMR investigations indicate that also homoleptic silylene complexes of Pd(0) such as Pd(83)(, [Pd(83)2]2, and Pd(84)4 exist these complexes are, however, very labile <2002JOM141>. 

Stannylquinones.1 The quinone synthesis based on addition of alkynyllithiums to substituted cyclobutenediones (13, 209-210, 284) can provide stannylquinones. Thus thermolysis of the alkynylcyclobutenol 1 with Bu3SnOCH3 results in rearrangement to the stannylquinone 2. As expected, these stannylquinones undergo palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling with organic halides (Stille reaction, 14, 35), particularly with allylic halides. 

The preparation of amphimedine 7-46 published by Echavarren and Stille [512] is a noteworthy application of 2-aza-1,3-butadienes in natural product synthesis since it is an interesting combination of hetero Diels-Alder methodology with a palladium catalysed cross coupling. Thus, dienophile 7-44 was formed by Stille coupling of the triflate 7-42 with the stannyl aniline 7-43. This qui-none then underwent cycloaddition to the 2-aza-l,3-butadiene 7-45 an acid catalysed hydrolysis of the cycloadduct 7-47 and subsequent N-methylation completed the synthesis of amphimedine 7-46 (Fig. 7-11). 

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