Palladium sulfur-containing heterocycles

Since sulfur is the most effective of all catalyst poisons, the hydrogenation of sulfur containing heterocycles is not easily accomplished unless there are no unshared electron pairs on the sulfur atom or the catalyst used is not affected by the poison. The hydrogenation of the cyelie sulfone, 58, takes palace over an excess of palladium in acetic acid at room temperature and atmospheric pressure (Eqn. 17.57). Thiophene, itself, can be hydrogenated to tetrahydrothiophene over rhenium heptasulfide at 250°C and 300 atmospheres of hydrogen or over a large excess of palladium in methanolic sulfuric acid at room temperature and 3-4 atmospheres. No hydrogenolysis of the carbon-sulfiir bond was observed in these reactions. 

Fagnou and co-workers succeeded to combine Heck cyclization with direct arylation in 2009. This interesting domino palladium-catalyzed Heck-intermolecular direct arylation reaction gave new access to a variety of dihydrobenzofurans, indolines, and oxindoles. A variety of sulfur-containing heterocycles such as thiazoles, thiophenes, and benzothiophene could be employed as the direct arylation coupling partner as well and resulted in yields up to 99% (Scheme 2.35). As the authors demonstrated, in addition to... 

Phenyl ethylenesulfonate, 241 Tin(IV) chloride, 300 Containing one sulfur 2,4-Bis(4-me thoxyphenyl)-1,3-dithia-2,4-diphosphetane-2,4-disulfide, 38 Titanium(IV) chloride-Zinc, 310 Other five-membered heterocycles Carbon dioxide, 65 Methanesulfonyl chloride, 176 Six-membered rings Containing one nitrogen—piperidines Dichlorotris(triphenylphosphine)-ruthenium(II), 107 Mercury(II) trifluoroacetate, 175 Tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)-palladium(O), 289... 

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